Booker T. Washington: “Above all, have you been really true to your parents and to your best selves in growing in strength of character, in…”

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

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

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