“If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”

“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.”

“I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.”

“Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden...”

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. ”

“The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.”