Booker T. Washington: “This I have said here, not to call attention to myself as an individual, but to the race to which I am proud to belong.”

From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race.

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

I think that the presentation of facts, on a high, dignified plane, is all the begging that most rich people care for.

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