Booker T. Washington: “I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the…”

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.

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

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.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.