#me

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

#boy #community #duke #duke ellington #ellington

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 just wanted to move out of Portland to do something. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#just #move #out #portland #something

Because God only knows why people like what they like and don't like something else. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#else #god #knows #like #only

I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#had #hard #hard time #i #letting

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

I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#i #i always #interesting #make #record

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#just #lot #meaning #now #popular