Booker T. Washington: “I want you to go out into the world, not to have an easy time, but to make sacrifices, and to help somebody else.”

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

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

In order to defend and protect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives.

I have always looked upon fame as something to be used in accomplishing good.