I like honesty and fair play.

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.

The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.

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

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

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.