#si

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#found #i #inspiring #never #place

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

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

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

Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#anybody #does #general #general public #i

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 rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#float #i #mississippi #parades #rode

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

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