A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of; you do not know what he is thinking and therefore you do not know what the oppressed and suppressed Negro, by virtue of his condition and circumstance, may give to the world as a surprise.

In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.

Look to Africa, for there a king will be crowned.