“I grew up on the coast of England in the ’70s. My dad is white from Cornwall and mum is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a …
Day: November 6, 1980
Greg Graffin
“If you can believe in God, then you can believe in anything. It’s a gang mentality.” …
Robert Ellis
And the flames of hell, they seemed so high When I could barely see over the pew I was just a boy when they told me that lie But lord, …
Mike Nichols
ABIGAIL POGREBIN: Does Nichols connect in any spiritual way to being Jewish or is it heritage that moved him? NICHOLS: Certainly heritage. Religion? I would have to say, no. In …
John McWhorter
“I am, indeed, an atheist. Not an agnostic, but an atheist. And I openly admit that religious commitment perplexes and sometimes even irritates me. It’s partly a matter of personal …
Matthew Sweet
I’ve spent twenty years learning to live In a world that takes back all that it gives But I do not want a war ‘Cause I’m not in for killing …
Emily Palmer Cape
“Cape was not your average socialite; she was an agnostic, a freethinker, and a self-described ‘suffragist.’ ” …
Alfred Naquet
Rosie Perez
“The abuse that I endured at the hands of nuns made me the type of person where I don’t believe in anybody’s dogma. I don’t buy it. It’s just a …
