If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

It is unfortunate that we should find ourselves at this time the only disorganized group. Others have had the advantage of organization for centuries, so what seems to them unnecessary, from a racial point of view, becomes necessary to us, who have had to labor all along under the disadvantage of being scattered without a racial aim or purpose.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa.