Booker T. Washington: “Don't go home and feel ashamed of your parents because you think they don't know as much as you think you know.”

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.