ThursdayMay 21, 2026
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The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas.... Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
There is a place in God's sun for the youth 'farthest down' who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it.
I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.
From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
If our people are to fight their way out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of pride.
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing ... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
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