Booker T. Washington: “I want you to be able to show them Negroes who stand in the front in the affairs of State, of religion, of education, of…”

I was supremely happy in the opportunity of being able to assist somebody else.

When persons ask me in these days how, in the midst of what sometimes seem hopelessly discouraging conditions, I can have such faith in the future of my race in this country, I remind them of the wilderness through which and out of which…

I have great faith in the power and influence of facts.

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