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.

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.

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.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

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.

Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.