In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.

The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.