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.

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

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

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

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.