Booker T. Washington: “You must remember that the people are watching you every day.”

As a rule, not only did the members of my race entertain no feelings of bitterness against the whites before and during the war, but there are many instances of Negroes tenderly caring for their former masters and mistresses who for some…

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

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

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