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Ed Smith Quotes

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem? Picture Quote #1

It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape Picture Quote #1

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 know that these people are famous. They’re living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops Picture Quote #1

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, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent Picture Quote #1

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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., area were required to live among themselves Picture Quote #1

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 job that was useful to the community Picture Quote #1

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community Picture Quote #1

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, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth Picture Quote #1

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 in some respects Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing Picture Quote #1

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 very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark Picture Quote #1

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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem? (Ed Smith Quotes) It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape (Ed Smith Quotes) 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 know that these people are famous. They’re living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops (Ed Smith Quotes) 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, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges (Ed Smith Quotes) 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 (Ed Smith Quotes) 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 came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent. (Ed Smith Quotes) 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 to live among themselves. (Ed Smith Quotes) 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 job that was useful to the community (Ed Smith Quotes) One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community (Ed Smith Quotes) 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, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth (Ed Smith Quotes) 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 in some respects (Ed Smith Quotes) 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 (Ed Smith Quotes) 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 way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing (Ed Smith Quotes) 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 very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark (Ed Smith Quotes)