The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for?

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.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

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

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

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.