Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment.

Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.

There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over.

Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

I have always tried...to lay before the colored race a cross section of it's own life, to view the colored heart from close range.

It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

Bore: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

I don't think the special counsel can avoid that question based upon the president's Donald Trump own statements. But I'm not charging obstruction of justice.

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

With MOOCs, “the real question becomes, where is human intervention important?

I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.

I believe in God because of a personal faith, a faith that is consistent with what I know about science.