Booker Quotes
- I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also… — Rachel Joyce
- Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to… — Eleanor Catton
- In Australia, the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. — Richard Flanagan
- I said in my acceptance speech that I hope that readers remember this not as the year I won the Booker, but the year that… — Richard Flanagan
- I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world. — Richard Flanagan
- Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way… — C L R James
- Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker… — C L R James
- Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more… — Booker T. Washington
- Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was. — Ed Smith