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Ed Smith has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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When you were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C.,…
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense…
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many…
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The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants,…
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When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue,…
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated…
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Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist…
— Dave Brubeck
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I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has…
— Dave Brubeck
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Bebop didn't have the humanity of Duke Ellington. It didn't have that recognizable thing. Bird and Diz were great, fantastic, challenging --…
— Miles Davis
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There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington.…
— Boris Vian
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My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you,…
— Kenny Burrell
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Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy…
— Christian McBride
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There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film…
— Randy Weston
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When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
— Ruth Brown
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