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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 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

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

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. ↗

— George A. Smith

#breadth #common #god #life #must

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 coming off of a lot of psyche meds and other things. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#i #lot #off #other #psyche

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#ball #band #bomb #carry #certain