“I had made my mind up that since I was not going to be a Negro, I would avail myself of every possible opportunity to make a white man’s success; and that, if it can be summed up in any one word, means “money.”

“I can imagine no more dissatisfied human being than an educated, cultured, and refined colored man in the United States.”

“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”