Booker T. Washington: “There is great power in simplicity, simplicity of speech, simplicity of life in every form.”

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.

I never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.