Booker T. Washington: “But in our case, from the captain down to the most humble servant, we were treated with the greatest kindness.”

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

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

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

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.