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

The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.