The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

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

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.