Booker T. Washington: “But while we still have something of a monopoly of this work, it is a fact that even this is slipping away from us.”

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

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

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

She was simply a victim of the system of slavery.