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

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

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.

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.

This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

You know when I was younger I used to look at Downbeat Magazine and I figured anybody in Downbeat must be making a living.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

Profit isn't a purpose, it's a result. To have purpose means the things we do are of real value to others.