Booker T. Washington: “Until we do this, we shall not be able to talk away, or to argue away, this prejudice.”

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

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

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…