Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.