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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So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.
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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.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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This radioactive material was packaged the way it should have been, in the proper equipment, to withstand a whole lot more than what it took last night.
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We felt it was important to maintain consistency across this district.
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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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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 still have a charge to determine whether it's homicide or suicide.
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We played a pretty perfect game that night. I don't think it will be easy by any means. But the girls will be excited and ready to go on Saturday.
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We played about 10 minutes of real good basketball. I don't know if it was our best stretch this season, but we played strong.
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We didn't have any Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D.C. There was no White Citizens Council. I mean, there was just this vast separation that you didn't have any kind of contact with until you went beyond the boundaries of your community.