Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Arthur Waley

Born: August 19, 1889
Died: June 27, 1966 (aged 76)
Bio: Arthur David Waley was an English Orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry.
Known for:
- Monkey (1942)
- Three ways of thought in ancient China (1939)
- The No Plays of Japan (1921)
- The Secret History of the Mongols
- More Translations from the Chinese (1919)







