To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-American.

It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.

She was always like this, only moves when her mind and heart tells her to move, not doing what everyone demanded her to do.

Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

It was enough to drive me mad. I was no longer myself and yet I was so much more me than I had ever been before. ~Katherine Demure

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.

I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.

Faithful found among the faithless.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.