Booker T. Washington: “I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.”

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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

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…

I cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.