After a storm comes a calm.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Only the educated are free.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.