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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#feel #how #i #i feel #just

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

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. ↗

— Elliott Smith

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