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.

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.

Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.

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.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.