Booker T. Washington: “It pays an individual to be honest with another person's money.”

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

Even to this day I can recall accurately the tortures that I underwent when putting on one of these garments.

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…

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