After a storm comes a calm.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Only the educated are free.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.