I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream - if I may so call it - of being a race leader dawned.

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

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

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

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.