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

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.

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

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.

Decide now to enter heaven one day from a life of fullness and walking in depth of revelation of his love, instead of crawling over the line beaten and bruised and discouraged.

when you have the reasons, reason!

Emotional self-defense...Those who care so much, maybe too much, know that it takes wisdom and courage to sometimes say, “no” to others.

Having a child takes you back to all those parts of your own childhood that you had hidden away.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.

At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.

I was more of a weightlifter.