Booker T. Washington: “In plain words, then, the problem we must work out here is not:--Can you master algebra, or literature?”

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

Until that question was asked it had never occurred to me that there was no period of my life that was devoted to play.

The hurtful influences of the institution were not by any means confined to the Negro.

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