Booker T. Washington: “Never get to the point where you are ashamed to ask somebody else for information.”

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

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…

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.