Booker T. Washington: “Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.”

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

As soon as it was learned that he was not an American Negro, all the signs of indignation disappeared.