Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.