Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise

A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself

The kind of sermon which is preached in most colored churches is not today attractive to even fairly intelligent men.

Education must not simply teach work-it must teach life.