To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
Only the educated are free.
It's always too early to quit.
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.