Where Wealth Lives

Selected quotes from the BET Jazz Documentary on the African American wealth experience:

"Owning personal property or land is a sign of freedom"

John Hope Franklin

"....but also because they had a stream of income independent of the white folks"

Tom Hanchett on the success of funeral home owners

Emmitt Smith on Capitalism

"People ask me what my sport is these days, and I tell them as far as I'm concerned I'm in the ultimate arena of competition, It's called free enterprise, and it's the most competitive thing I've ever attempted."

Emmitt Smith