Booker T. Washington: “Most people, I think, are able to draw proper conclusions if they are given the facts in an interesting form on which to…”

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

When they saw that I was not afraid or ashamed to work, they began to assist with more enthusiasm.

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