Booker T. Washington: “Seek every opportunity possible to make somebody happy and comfortable.”

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 repeat my belief that the world is growing in the direction of giving.

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