Nick Ashford(1942-2011)

He and his wife, Valerie Simpson, wrote Motown hits including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", originally recorded by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell and later by Diana Ross.

[on his arrival in New York in 1964]: One of the guys in the park told me, he said, 'There's a place up in Harlem, where you can get something to eat at White Rock Baptist Church. I went up there and I got my things out of Port Authority. I put water on my jacket and on my suit, to get all the wrinkles out. They didn't know I was homeless when I was in the church, and I saw Valerie.