Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.~ Booker T. Washington

We should not permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities~ Booker T. Washington

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.~ Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington was an educator and reformer. He was responsible for the early development and success of what is now Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama.

He became a noted writer and perhaps the most prominent African American leader of his time. an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite.

Tuskegee Institute, founded by Washington, was the first institution of higher learning for African Americans; Washington came under pressure from critics who viewed him as an accommodationist because they felt he de-emphasized racism, racial violence against blacks, and discrimination.