"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 took down dat leftover seafood tower after lettin’ it sit on the counter ‘cause too john blazed to stick it in the fridge (pause) ya heard.”
— 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."
