Simon/names

Famous quotes containing the words simon and/or names:

“Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.”
—Paul Simon (b. 1941)

“Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa.... We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bought them; white people changed their names ... my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)