Booker T. Washington

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.