It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

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

You have the ability, now apply yourself.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.