Ed Smith
Ed Smith
Played county cricket for Kent from 1996 to 2004 and Middlesex from 2005 to 2008. He also wrote the book Playing Hard Ball.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth19 July 1977
CountryUnited States of America
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We felt it was important to maintain consistency across this district.
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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.
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We know everything gets started with that press. If we can't make shots and get into the press, we struggle.
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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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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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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.
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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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It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.