Booker T. Washington: “Be sure that you know all--or as nearly as possible all--there is to be known about milking cows.”

The picture of several dozen boys and girls in a schoolroom engaged in study made a deep impression upon me, and I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.

I can scarcely imagine any torture, except, perhaps, the pulling of a tooth, that is equal to that caused by putting on a new flax shirt for the first time.

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

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