Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior?

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.

We make a mockery of God’s forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.

The boy can do anything, but to be the star of the World Cup you have got to get to the final and win it!

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.

When you work hard...it's only fair that you party hard.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

White privilege is the other side of racism.

I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.