Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
C. L. R. James

Born: January 4, 1901
Died: May 19, 1989 (aged 88)
Bio: Cyril Lionel Robert James, best known as C. L. R. James, who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist.
Known for:
- The Black Jacobins (1938)
- Beyond a Boundary (1963)
- Minty Alley (1936)
- State Capitalism and World Revolution (1969)