Booker T. Washington: “So you see the result of education is to increase a person's wants.”

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

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…

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.