Booker T. Washington: “After a while I succeeded in making arrangements with the teacher to give me some lessons at night, after the day’s work…”

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

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.

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…

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