We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

...in any land, in any country under modern free competition, to lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has withstood and seldom will withstand.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color line indefinitely without discouragement and retrogression. And the condition of the Negro is ever the cause for further discrimination.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.