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

The Greatest Weapon Used Against the Negro is Disorganization.

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.

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

When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn’t last forever.

I’m enjoying the most perfect tranquillity, free from all worries, and in consequence would like to stay this way forever, in a peaceful corner of the countryside like this.

It wasn’t forever. But I loved her until I hated her.

I never wanna have a time where I’m on the big lawn just sitting back smoking cigars and drinking lemonade. I wanna work forever. Until I die. I wanna die on the way to a show.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope.

Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.