The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

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.

Time heals nothing

The most satisfying win over your enemies is to win them in life.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

It's important to see your parents as individuals. As a son or as a daughter you don't stop and think that your parents might have their own expectations, dreams or disappointments.

I'm not someone who obsesses about what they eat, but I do try to eat consciously and towards it being something that is super enjoyable. I love good food.

Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.