"I think i needed to see a show like this to remember what iS possible. i think i needed to remember what happens when you pair a gifted literary mind to an epically long TITLE. frederick douglass boulevard aka food & drink boulevard aka f.d.b. is an inspiration."
— TA-NEHISI COATES
"FOOD & DRINK BOULEVARD IS ingenuous, A SATIRICAL OPUScule ON RACE IN TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AMERICA."
— OPRAH WINFREY
"we have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. Food & drink boulevard thwarts the former and does nothing to ameliorate the latter."
— adam clayton powell jr.
"F.d.B. is washington kirk’s unforgettable epic of extended adolescence in gentrifying harlem."
— tom wolfe
"hold fast to dreams / for when dreams go / life is a barren field / frozen with snow… / get kirk a pickaxe and a shovel!"
— langston hughes
"Yo shit is ill like ya mans WHEN HE hit THAT bad joint raw like a dummy and his shit WAS drippin like a runny nose nahmean. Raw like when ya mans tapped THAT aforementioned joint and his saber leaked afterward like a broke faucet NAMSAYIN. HARDER THAN YA MANS shiitake PAUSE WHEN HE WAS SMASHIN THAT JOINT INTO JUICY TROPICANA WIT extra PULP b.
— big ghost
"if you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it. i laughed once towards the end, but it was a kind of gallows humor."
