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).
Kwame Dawes
Born: July 28, 1962 (age 62)
Bio: Kwame Senu Neville Dawes is an Emmy award-winning poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.
Known for:
- Hope's Hospice: And Other Poems (2009)
- Progeny of Air (1994)
- Gomer's Song (2007)
- Natural mysticism (1999)