Booker T. Washington: “If you are a minister and preach interesting and instructive sermons, people are going to be impressed by what you say…”

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

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

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 think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.