Booker T. Washington

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

"If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams."

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

"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."

"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 had to overcome while trying to succeed."