Success is not to be measured so much by the status one has attained in life but rather by the obstacles one has overcome while trying to succeed. - Booker T. Washington

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of race.

My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found. I have found, too, that it is the visible, the tangible, that goes a long ways in softening prejudices. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.