#wash

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap. ↗

— Ashlee Simpson

#away #bad #being #car #did

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#education #equal #his #intellect #least

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#brave #brave men #cause #country #dared

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#away #came #change #lives #now

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

#both #came #certainly #chefs #deep

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

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

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 were growing up in the 30s, 20s, of course the 40s, all black people at least in the Washington, D.C., area were required to live among themselves. ↗

— Ed Smith

#area #black #course #growing #growing up

We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews. ↗

— Kenneth Starr

#asking #assessing #discussions #important #important issue