Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.