Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Henry Louis Gates
Born: September 16, 1950 (age 74)
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)