[T]he poetic soul… a living lyre, it only lives enough to echo, and all that it has of life it pours out, and spends in song: the inspiring tripod which the poet ascends, at once unites him to, and separates him from, society. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)
The bottom line is that Wanda Sykes has the longest continuously documented family tree of any African-American we have ever researched. – Henry Louis Gates
