Before Quote by Ed Smith

The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own…

— Ed Smith

Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African American lawyers.…

— Jeffrey Rosen

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any…

— Nipsey Hussle

Cory Booker grew up rich in an all-white suburb. He's basically a white guy. His parents were very wealthy executives at IBM.

— Gavin McInnes

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain…

— Solomon Burke

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

— Patrice Motsepe

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not…

— Henry Louis Gates

[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Black business owners throughout America too often face bigger barriers to accessing capital.

— Jaime Harrison

Atlanta is home to so much Black entrepreneurship - there's no better place to grow up as a Black creative with a dream.

— Latto

A black entrepreneur has to be equally if not more prepared than a white to get his fair share of loan money.

— Linda Johnson Rice

One of the hardest things to do is to get capital. That's where we, as black business, struggles. And the other place we struggle…

— Richelieu Dennis