Greatness Is Largely A Social Accident, And

We Have A Powerful Potential In Our Youth, And We Must Have The Courage To Change Old Ideas And Practices So That We May Direct Their Power Toward Good Ends.

You White Folks Have Long Been Eating The White Meat Of The Chicken. We Negroes Are Now Ready For Some Of The White Meat Instead Of The Dark Meat.

The Progress Of The World Will Call For The Best That All Of Us Have To Give.

[to The Patronizing Train Conductor Who Had Twice Said, 'auntie, Give Me Your Ticket':] Which Of My Sister's Sons Are You?

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.