Booker T. Washington: “I had not had the privilege of sitting down to a dining-table until I was quite well grown.”

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

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.