You must not mistake lip-service and noise for bravery and service.

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.

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.

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.

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

Look for me in the whirlwind or the storm.