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I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.


Benjamin Booker

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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Character is power.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardl...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to th...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in li...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the pla...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a ...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to bea...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that...
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or ...
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