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.

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

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

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

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!

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