Booker T. Washington: “When a white boy undertakes a task, it is taken for granted that he will succeed.”

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.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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

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