“There was a different, visionary team commitment that guided the black...” — Burgess Owens Quote

“There was a different, visionary team commitment that guided the black community at the beginning of the 20th century, best envisioned by educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Tuskegee University Booker T. Washington.”

“From 1865 to 1965, my race, the black race, was one of the most competitive, entrepreneurial, Christian, moral races in our country. We had the highest percentage of entrepreneurs in the country, the highest percentage of marriage in the country.”

“The black community has fallen into this horribly dysfunctional equilibrium.”

“There's so much energy and life when the Black community comes together.”

“I'd visited Antigua when I was 16 - I grew up in Suffolk around white people, I didn't have a black community, so it was the first time I'd been in a predominantly black country.”