The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.

Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems _x000D_ that political independence disappears without economic independence _x000D_ that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.