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Ed Smith

"There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing."

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"There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing."

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Donna Grant

"Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin."

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Donna Grant

"There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots."

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Donna Grant

"There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing."

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Donna Grant

"It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming."

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Donna Grant

"The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl."

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Donna Grant

"Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault."

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Donna Grant

"I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water."

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Donna Grant

"Underneath all the skin, we're all the same."

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Donna Grant

"I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am."

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Donna Grant

"Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin."

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Ed Smith
"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."

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Ed Smith
"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."

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Ed Smith
"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."

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Ed Smith
"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."

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Ed Smith
"It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape."

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Ed Smith
"One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community."

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Ed Smith
"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."

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Ed Smith
"There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing."

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Ed Smith
"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."

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Ed Smith
"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."

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