Booker T. Washington: “I know that the one who makes this mistake does so because of his own lack of opportunity for the highest kind of…”

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 never saw a man who so completely lost sight of himself.

Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, notwithstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.