When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.

I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.