Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking. I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.

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.