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

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.

We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over.

There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.

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.