Booker t. washington

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Character is power.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.