Booker T. Washington: “Just in proportion as you set your lives right in this matter, will the masses of the race be inclined to follow you.”

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.

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.

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

These discussions showed that they understood the situation, and that they kept themselves informed of events by what was termed the “grape-vine” telegraph.