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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.