Quote of the day
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
Orlando Patterson

Born: June 5, 1940 (age 85)
Bio: Orlando Patterson is a Jamaican-born American historical and cultural sociologist known for his work regarding issues of race in the United States, as well as the sociology of development. His book Freedom, Volume One, or Freedom in the Making of Western Culture, won the U.S.
Known for:
- Slavery and Social Death (1982)
- Freedom (1991)
- The Children of Sisyphus (1964)
- An Absence of Ruins (1967)