Booker T. Washington: “Our people spend thousands of dollars every year for this cheap jewellery.”

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.

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.