Booker T. Washington: “If you have anything to write, write it in the plainest manner possible.”

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

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

The whole machinery of slavery was so constructed as to cause labour, as a rule, to be looked upon as a badge of degradation, of inferiority.

I repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.