I'm not black, nor do I know a great deal about black history, but here are some nice quotes from a historical figure I do admire, Booker T. Washington "Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company." "Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him." "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." "No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward." "One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him." "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."