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.

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.

Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.

Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.

And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

We regret mistakes were made.

First of all, there is absolutely an order that we have put together to create the maximum number of surprises, but that's just part of our storytelling.

You know they're just looking for wrinkles and cellulite.

You know about Star Trek?" came out of Stark's mouth before his brain could stop it. Again, the warrior shrugged. "We do have the satellite.

Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.