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.

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

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.