Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
John R. Rickford

Born: September 16, 1949 (age 76)
Bio: John Russell Rickford is a Guyanese academic and author. His book Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English, which he wrote together with his son, Russell J. Rickford, won the American Book Award in 2000. Rickford is the J.E.
Known for:
- Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English (2000)
- Variation in a Creole continuum (1987)