Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

Man is what his dreams are.

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.

The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.