Success always leaves footprints.

You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.

No one can degrade us except ourselves.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.