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).
Norma Merrick Sklarek
Born: April 15, 1926
Died: February 6, 2012 (aged 85)
Bio: Norma Merrick Sklarek was a pioneering African-American architect. Sklarek was the third black woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States after Georgia Louise Harris Brown and Beverly Loraine Greene.