Ed Smith Quotes

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

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