Booker T. Washington: “It is disgraceful for a girl to go about with a soiled apron, or with her clothes pinned together.”

No one section of our country was wholly responsible for its introduction, and, besides, it was recognized and protected for years by the General Government.

In this connection I have never been able to understand how the slaves throughout the South, completely ignorant as were the masses so far as books or newspapers were concerned, were able to keep themselves so accurately and completely…

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 cannot remember having slept in a bed until after our family was declared free by the Emancipation Proclamation.