Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Sterling D. Plumpp
Born: January 30, 1940 (age 84)
Bio: Sterling Dominic Plumpp is an American poet, educator, editor, and critic. He has written numerous books, including Hornman, Harriet Tubman, Ornate With Smoke, Half Black, Half Blacker, and The Mojo Hands Call, I Must Go.
Known for:
- Black rituals (1972)
- Ornate with smoke (1997)
- Home - Bass (2012)
- Velvet be-bop kente cloth (2003)
- Blues: Narratives (1999)