Booker T. Washington: “But it is this habit of disappointing people in business matters without apparent care or concern that has given the…”

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

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.