Ed Smith Quotes

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

"[Chicago politicians are already denouncing the Bank of America pledge to fund Black history programs as] miniscule. ... a poor showing for an institution of this magnitude."

"We were anything but nervous. They are a loose group. Maybe they're too loose. And we were healthy. No excuses for our play tonight."

"We felt it was important to maintain consistency across this district."

"People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth."

"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."

"She took it right at those big girls and wasn't scared of them. She gave us the intensity that we needed at that time. She is too young to even think about doing it. She just did it."

"Ellington never graduated from high school, so when you speak about his success as a musician, his success as a businessman, his success as an organizer, the city was his tutor."

"Howard is still a great school. But many of the great faculty members that would be at Howard today are now at Harvard and Yale and Princeton. All this comes as a consequence of affirmative action and the admissions policies that encouraged blacks to enroll in the Ivy League schools."

"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."