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

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.

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.

Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment.

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

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