“I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.”
“I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.”
| Alvin Adams, Businessman (1804) |
| Jerome Cavanagh, Politician (1928) |
| Abby Elliott, Actress (1987) |
| Geronimo, Statesman (1829) |
| Cobi Jones, Athlete (1970) |
| Stan Laurel, Actor (1890) |
| Henri Lefebvre, Sociologist (1901) |
| Mel Allen, Celebrity (1996) |
| Rufus Jones, Writer (1948) |