Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.
Booker T. WashingtonRemember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
Booker T. WashingtonWe shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
Booker T. WashingtonNo white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white manโs clothes, eats the white manโs food, speaks the white manโs language, and professes the white manโs religion.
Booker T. Washington