Trivia time! Which description of exotic segregation-era African American life was written in 2005 (in Black History Month, no less) and which was written in 1951:

1) "[G]uests are drinking, eating and dancing at Nanny's Friday night fish fry with the kind of infectious laughter and physical abandon that only people with hard lives can muster."

2) "At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, music, not enough night."

[1) Holding Fast to Dreams in a Destitute World, by Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2005; 2) On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, 1951]