Booker T. Washington: “Is there not something else I ought to do before I go?" Put your whole souls into whatever you attempt to do.”

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

Despite this disappointment, however, I determined that I would learn something, anyway.

I do not know how many have noticed it, but I think that it will be found to be true that there are few instances, either in slavery or freedom, in which a member of my race has been known to betray a specific trust.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.