The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

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

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.

The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.

What happens when you have vast legislative overreach is you don't particularly fix the problem you started out to fix but create problems for everyone else.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.

Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn’t realize that “test” is normally a bad thing.

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

Music is a unifying force.