Oscar Micheaux Quotes

#1. What I like best is a good story with a moral. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#2. Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#3. Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#4. One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#5. Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#6. We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#7. There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#8. 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. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#9. 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. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#10. My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature. - Author: Oscar Micheaux

#11. Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort. - Author: Oscar Micheaux