Booker T. Washington: “So when you go out from here, buy a bathtub, even if you cannot afford to buy anything else.”

But taking place at the time it did, and for the reason that it did, no one could ever make me believe that my mother was guilty of thieving.

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

The Negro boy has obstacles, discouragements, and temptations to battle with that are little known to those not situated as he is.

When freedom came, the slaves were almost as well fitted to begin life anew as the master, except in the matter of book-learning and ownership of property.