One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

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

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

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

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.

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.