#lack

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

#both #came #certainly #chefs #deep

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

#black #booker #business #business owners #entrepreneurship

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community. ↗

— Ed Smith

#black community #community #disintegration #integration #pay

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

#because #beyond #blacks #burden #civil

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

#black community #bond #class #community #divided

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

#beyond #black #black community #clubs #community

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

#black community #community #could #dark #embrace

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

#area #black #course #growing #growing up

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#cannot #concealed #defect #lack #ought

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#create #green #lack #money #practices