“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
“I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”
“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”
“There was no period of my life that was devoted to play, from the time that I can remember anything, almost everyday of my life has been occupied in some kind of labor.”
“Ever since I have been old enough to think for myself, I have entertained the idea that, not withstanding the cruel wrongs inflicted upon us, the black man got nearly as much out of slavery as the white man did.”
Booker T Washington was born this date (4/5/1856) Hale’s Ford, VA. He authored Up From Slavery. Washington died 11/14/1915 at Tuskegee, AL.
