Booker T. Washington: “And, to be plain with you, we cannot have such people here.”

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 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.

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.