Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.

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

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

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

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

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

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.