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“Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'”
“Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
| Keith Carradine, Actor (1949) |
| Benny Carter, Musician (1907) |
| William M. Daley, Politician (1948) |
| Kool Moe Dee, Musician (1962) |
| Roger Federer, Athlete (1981) |
| George Gerbner, Journalist (1919) |
| Brian Harvey, Musician (1974) |
| Alija Izetbegovic, Activist (1925) |
| Dino De Laurentiis, Director (1919) |
| Ernest Lawrence, Scientist (1901) |
| George Canning, Statesman (1827) |
| Ernst Haeckel, Scientist (1919) |
| James Irwin, Astronaut (1991) |
| Shirley Jackson, Novelist (1965) |
| John H. Johnson, Businessman (2005) |