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.

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.

To celebrate the Fourth of July meant something definite in those days.

Tool wondered if the girl was going mad. It happened to people. Sometimes they saw too much and their minds went away. They lost the will to survive. They curled up and surrendered to madness.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

A novel is a printed circuit through which flows the force of a reader's own life.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

The only thing I can pride myself on is making a really good breakfast.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.

Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.