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

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.

Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.

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.

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.