No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Booker T. Washington died in 1915, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1901. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
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.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Work is love made visible.
It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
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