One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape. — Ed Smith Diet Copy Share Image
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C.,… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue,… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants,… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many… — Ed Smith Blacks Copy Share Image
There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that… — Ed Smith Copy Share Image
