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

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.

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.

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

You are consciousness within your body and mind

Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the “What ifs” and “If onlys.

It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.

I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.

We favor the visible, the embedded, the personal, the narrated, and the tangible; we scorn the abstract.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.