"The black community now in many ways divided……" — Ed Smith
"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 longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress."
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15 Quotes by Ed Smith
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Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were…
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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…
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had…
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks…
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The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our…
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When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of…
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the…
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People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they…
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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and…
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