Quote of the day
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Henry Louis Gates
Born: September 16, 1950 (age 73)
Bio: Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual.
Known for:
- The Signifying Monkey (1988)
- Colored People: A Memoir (1994)
- Wonders of the African world (1999)
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997)