There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the pub… - Booker T. Washington

The ambition to secure an education was most praiseworthy and encouraging. The idea, however, was too prevalent that, as soon as one secured a little education, in some unexplainable way he would be free from most of the hardships of the world, and, at any rate, could live without manual labour. There was a further feeling that a knowledge, however little, of the Greek and Latin languages would make one a very superior human being, something bordering almost on the supernatural.

I have often heard persons condemned for not giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing about it.

Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed