I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate… — Booker Washington

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.