Booker T. Washington: “The title is the shadow; what you say is the substance.”

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 knew that if we failed it would injure the whole race.

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.