Booker T. Washington: “Just in proportion as our friends see that we are worthy of these good things, they will come to us.”

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

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