What I like best is a good story with a moral.

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.

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.

Beauty is not defined by your physical features. It is defined by the heart inside your chest and the love that flows through it.

Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn’t we give ourselves permission to thrive?

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.

We are not perfect. We are here to learn. Earth is one big classroom and God is our heavenly guidance counselor and teacher.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.

There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.