Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it ….

Make yourself as happy as possible, and try to make those happy whose lives come in touch with yours. But to attempt to right the wrongs and cease th….

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God..

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive Lo….

I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely..

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered..

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient..

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very m….

So God stepped over to the edge of the world And He spat out the seven seas; He batted His eyes, and the lightnings flashed; He clapped His hands, an….

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen..

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics..

She was my first love, and I loved her as only a boy loves..

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle..

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst..

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in ….

A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure ….

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonv….

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, ….

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun..

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune..

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long….