Quote of the day
They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Claude Brown

Born: February 23, 1937
Died: February 2, 2002 (aged 64)
Bio: Claude Brown is the author of Manchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem. He also published Children of Ham.
Known for:
- Manchild in the Promised Land (1965)
- Stonewall Speaks
- Confederate Devil John
- The children of Ham (1976)






