Status Updates From Up from Slavery

Brilliance! From his birth into slavery to gaining an education at Hampton Institution, Washington was smart, eloquent, observant of human nature. I am only 30% in, but this piece educates and inspires me to be and do more.

There were parts of this book that were so detailed it was tedious to read. However there is also a lot of inspiring information in this autobiography about the life of Booker T. Washington. I admire the hope he held in all he did.

“In my contact with people I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls—with the great outside world. No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world” - BTW

“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 ” - Up From Slavery