“What you do today that is worthwhile, inspires others to act at some future time.”

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.

Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.

I like honesty and fair play.

My future is righteousness.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

Discipline has within it the potential for creating future miracles.

A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

I am going into an unknown future, but I’m still all here, and still while there’s life, there’s hope.

Pay attention to what you’re saying about yourself. You are prophesying your future.