Booker T. Washington: “I do not believe that any person is educated so long as he lives in a dirty, miserable shanty.”

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

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

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

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