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“Education is not a thing apart from life—not a “system,” nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery - An Autobiography

“At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, not alone for its financial value, but for labour’s own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery - An Autobiography

“The study of art that does not result in making the strong less willing to suppress the weak means little.”
― Booker T. Washington

“Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.”
― Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations