Diversity is beautiful: Quoting Paul Auster

Sunday, 5 May 2024

Quoting Paul Auster

“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”
Paul Auster, Oracle Night

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Karen21 May 2024 at 09:26
Such a loss for us all.
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Luisa Capetillo (birthday)
- 29 October:
James Edward Orange (birthday)
- 29 October:
International Internet Day
- 31 October:
Ethel Waters (birthday)
- 31 October:
Laura Bassi (birthday)

  November
- 1 November:
Hannah Höch (birthday)
- 2 November:
Mandy Carter (birthday)
- 3 November:
Lois Mailou Jones (birthday)
- 4 November:
Shakuntala Devi (birthday)
- 6 November:
Michael Schwerner (birthday)
- 7 November:
Lise Meitner (birthday)
- 8 November:
World Town Planning Day
- 9 November:
Dorothy Jean Dandridge (birthday)
- 10 November:
Mildred Bruce (birthday)
- 10 November:
Nielsine Nielsen (birthday)
- 11 November:
Violet Clara McNaughton (birthday)
- 11 November:
Daisy Bates (birthday)
- 11 November:
Alice Huyler Ramsey (birthday)
- 11 November:
Elizabeth Abimbola Awoliyi (birthday)
- 12 November:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (birthday)
- 12 November:
Louise Thaden (birthday)
- 12 November:
World Pneumonia Day
- 13 November:
Dorothea Erxleben (birthday)
- 13 November:
World Kindness Day
- 14 November:
World Diabetes Day
- 15 November:
Sarah Josephine Baker (birthday)
- 16 November:
Anna Honzáková (birthday)
- 16 November:
Glenn Burke (birthday)
- 16 November:
Dorothea Jameson (birthday)
- 16 November:
International Day for Tolerance
- 18 November:
Howard Thurman (birthday)
- 19 November:
International COPD Day
- 19 November:
International Men's Day
- 20 November:
Pauli Murray (birthday)
- 20 November:
Transgender Day of Remembrance
- 20 November:
Black Awareness Day
- 20 November:
International Children's Day
- 21 November:
Etta Zuber Falconer (birthday)
- 21 November:
World Television Day
- 22 November:
Jerrie Mock (birthday)
- 22 November:
Cecilia Grierson (birthday)
- 23 November:
Mary Seacole (birthday)
- 23 November:
Andrew Goodman (birthday)
- 25 November:
Evelyn Nelson (birthday)
- 25 November:
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
- 26 November:
Simon Tseko Nkoli (birthday)
- 26 November:
Madeleine Brès (birthday)
- 26 November:
Mary Edwards Walker (birthday)
- 27 November:
J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr. (birthday)
- 28 November:
Lila Finn (birthday)
- 29 November:
Wendell Phillips (birthday)
- 30 November:
Gordon Parks (birthday)
- 30 November:
Jane C. Wright (birthday)
- 30 November:
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (birthday)
- 30 November:
Cities for Life Day
- 30 November:
Self-Injury Awareness Day

  December
- December:
Lola Mae Hendricks (birthday)
- 1 December:
Rosa Parks Day (arrest)
- 1 December:
Christine Ladd-Franklin (birthday)
- 1 December:
Ann Preston (birthday)
- 1 December:
World AIDS Day
- 2 December:
International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- 2 December:
Marian Breland Bailey(birthday)
- 3 December:
International Day of People with Disability
- 4 December:
Emma Constance Stone (birthday)
- 4 December:
Jeanne Manford (birthday)
- 5 December:
Elbert Frank Cox (birthday)
- 5 December:
International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development
- 6 December:
Florence Mateer (birthday)
- 7 December:
International Civil Aviation Day
- 7 December:
Warschauer Kniefall
- 10 December:
Human Rights Day
- 10 December:
World Football Day
- 11 December:
Heman Marion Sweatt (birthday)
- 12 December:
Oliva M. Espín (birthday)
- 12 December:
William Lloyd Garrison (birthday)
- 13 December:
Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (birthday)
- 13 December:
Ella Baker (birthday)
- 15 December:
International Tea Day
- 16 December:
Grace Alele-Williams (birthday)
- 16 December:
Barbara Smith (birthday)
- 16 December:
William Cooper Nell (birthday)
- 17 December:
Nellie Stone Johnson (birthday)
- 17 December:
NelMary Cartwright (birthday)
- 17 December:
Èmile du Chatelet (birthday)
- 18 December:
International Migrants Day
- 19 December:
Martin Luther King, Sr. (birthday)
- 20 December:
International Human Solidarity Day
- 21 December:
Laura Bridgman (birthday)
- 22 December:
Gail Wyatt(birthday)
- 23 December:
Sarah Breedlove (birthday)
- 23 December:
Fredi Washington (birthday)
- 24 December:
Polly Burson (birthday)
- 26 December:
Mary Fairfax Somerville (birthday)
- 28 December:
Bobbie Rosenfeld (birthday)
- 28 December:
Joseph H. Grosslight (birthday)
- 29 December:
Emory Malick (birthday)

  Birthday/year unknown
- Elspeth Beard
- Margaret Bourke-White (14 June)
- Sabiha Gökcen (22 March)
- Margaret Hamilton (1936)
- Komako Kimura
- Leola N. King
- Annie Lumpkins
- Georgia E. L. Patton (1864)
- Sarla Thakral
- Maud Wagner (February 1877)
- Maria P. Williams (Filmmaker)