Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.

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.

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

You make yourself happy while talking to someone. You will cease to talk when you lose the desire to impress that person.

This was the kind of kiss you remembered when you were a very old lady with a very poor memory.

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

My administration will put new American metal into the spine of this nation.

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.