The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

The sooner it's over, the sooner we can go back to bed. Everything good happens in bed.

Time is an available instrument for reaching the eternal.

There is no substitute for victory.

I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

People ask me a lot, 'what can one person do,' and I say 'I'm not really sure what one person can due except come together with other people.'

Sometimes you meet someone at an inopportune moment and it doesn't work out, but then you see them again five years later and you're in different places and it's a better time.

Harley-Davidson," she said. "Sweet.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.