Booker T. Washington

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

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

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

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.