Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)