Booker T. Washington: “Such people simply punish their feet to make people think they have small feet, though it is just as honourable to have…”

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

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.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.

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