Danish writer Karen Blixen aka Isak Dinesen, author of Out of Africa (1937) and Shadows on the Grass (1961) was born today in 1885.

“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

Ralph Ellison died today in 1994, age 80.

“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man