1 From that time to the present I have always tried to keep his advice in mind.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 2 We try to keep constantly in mind the fact that the worth of the school is to be judged by its graduates.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 3 I have so trained myself that I can lie down for a nap of fifteen or twenty minutes, and get up refreshed in body and mind.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 4 I made up my mind that there would be no audience, and that I should not have to speak, but, as a matter of duty, I went to the church, and found it packed with people.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 5 During the whole of the Reconstruction period two ideas were constantly agitating in the minds of the coloured people, or, at least, in the minds of a large part of the race.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter V. 6 To prevent this, I make up my mind, as a rule, that I will try to make my address so interesting, will try to state so many interesting facts one after another, that no one can leave.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 7 My experience teaches me that, if one learns to follow this plan, he gets a freshness of body and vigour of mind out of work that goes a long way toward keeping him strong and healthy.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XV. 8 As I remember it now, the thing that was uppermost in my mind was the desire to say something that would cement the friendship of the races and bring about hearty cooperation between them.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV. 9 I have always felt that Mr. Adams, in a large degree, derived his unusual power of mind from the training given his hands in the process of mastering well three trades during the days of slavery.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 10 When Mr. Huntington gave me the first two dollars, I did not blame him for not giving me more, but made up my mind that I was going to convince him by tangible results that we were worthy of larger gifts.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XII. 11 This was a recognition that had never in the slightest manner entered into my mind, and it was hard for me to realize that I was to be honoured by a degree from the oldest and most renowned university in America.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XVII. 12 In giving all these descriptions of what I saw during my month of travel in the country around Tuskegee, I wish my readers to keep in mind the fact that there were many encouraging exceptions to the conditions which I have described.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VII. 13 This reception was held not far from the spot where I slept the first night I spent in the city, and I must confess that my mind was more upon the sidewalk that first gave me shelter than upon the recognition, agreeable and cordial as it was.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 14 Having been so long without proper food, a bath, and a change of clothing, I did not, of course, make a very favourable impression upon her, and I could see at once that there were doubts in her mind about the wisdom of admitting me as a student.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter III. 15 The students were making progress in learning books and in developing their minds; but it became apparent at once that, if we were to make any permanent impression upon those who had come to us for training we must do something besides teach them mere books.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter VIII. 16 And in this connection it is well to bear in mind that whatever other sins the South may be called to bear, when it comes to business, pure and simple, it is in the South that the Negro is given a man's chance in the commercial world, and in nothing is this Exposition more eloquent than in emphasizing this chance.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContextHighlight In Chapter XIV.