Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.