No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. ― Booker T. Washington

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A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority. ― Booker T. Washington

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The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy. ― Booker T. Washington

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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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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

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I'm not afraid of color. I like color. - Rita Moreno

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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. ― Booker T. Washington

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The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do. ― Booker T. Washington

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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

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