Booker T. Washington: “People cannot get hold of money--or at least cannot keep hold of it--who have not learned to exercise self-control.”

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

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 pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.

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