Booker T. Washington: “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential…”

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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

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