“The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind.”

People without knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture are like a tree without roots.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

Hungry men have no respect for the law, authority, or human life.

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER? Physical, financial, and scientific.

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.

Africa for the Africans, at home and abroad!

There is no humanity before that which starts with yourself.

Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Take advantage of every opportunity; where there is none, make it for yourself.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair–remove them from your brain.

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end.

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Drop perfectionism, develop persistence.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group.