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I was born in South Carolina. My grandfather was stolen from Africa.

All one needs to write a story is one feeling and four walls.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. The library is the university.

I was going to take a longer holiday than he thought for.

I WAS born in Columbia, South Carolina.

But thanks be to God that those days have passed, and we now live under the sun of liberty.

My only desire has been to do good.

When the yoke was taken from my neck I went to school in Columbia, S. C., awhile, then to Charleston.

My life had not been wholly uneventful; I had been of an observant turn of mind from my youth.

My father was of a more delicate system than the rest of the children, and with this peculiarity united a taste for study and mental occupation.

While there, walking in the street, she made a misstep, fell, and her ankle was so much injured as to terminate in mortification and consequent death.

I exchanged not a word more with any one, but walked home with feelings sunk as low as a few minutes before they had been elevated.

I was introduced to agriculture while pursuing a college degree in pulp and paper science and technology at North Carolina State University. While a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, I had the opportunity to join the U.S. Department of Agriculture in their efforts to advance agriculture through research, education, and extension.

The place of my birth and the conditions under which I was born are matters over which, of course, I had no control.

If we cannot choose our condition, or control events, we have our choice of the course we will pursue, so far as sin or obedience to the truth is concerned.

I gave my services willingly for four years and three months without receiving a dollar.

I cannot express the pleasure I have had in sitting down, and recalling the incidents of my childhood and youth.

I always had plenty to do. Fast as one child would be walkin', then I would have another one to nurse.

I was young and thoughtless; but the first reflection that rushed upon me, was, that God in his goodness had saved my life by prompting me in the critical moment to act as I did.

I was very happy to know my efforts were successful in camp, and also felt grateful for the appreciation of my services.

She taught me for only one course, but for some reason, I was always in her presence,” Owens said in a 2014 documentary about her life and career. “She had finished North Carolina Central herself and she had gone on to get her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. The fact that she had gotten a Ph.D.—she became my role model.

It does not treat of campaigns, army maneuvers, or plans of battles, but only of the daily life of a common soldier, and of such things as fell under his limited observation.

A defect, from which the race suffers much, arises out of the fact that so little effort has been made to record and preserve the creditable history which the race has already made.