#ld

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

#because #clothing #complexion #could #discriminated

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever. ↗

— Ed Smith

#experienced #grandparents #growing #growing up #had

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

#choice #complexion #forth #go #live

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

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#dreamworks #expecting #i #i do #me

I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#could #each #home #i #just

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#builds #crowds #day #dream #every

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#aggravate #ailments #ball player #ballroom #being

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#old #our #ranks #room #vigorous