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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. ― Booker T. Washington

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I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ― Booker T. Washington
Never forget, your family should always have priority over your work.
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. ― Neil Gaiman
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. ― Booker T. Washington
My definition of happiness is having something to do what you love to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. ― Booker T. Washington
The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.