Oscar Micheaux Quotes

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

Oscar Micheaux

#2. My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive

Haruki Murakami

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

Oscar Micheaux

#4. The yearning to be Afghan, to be part of the country, part of the land helped me separate myself from the casual traveler and claim my Afghan identity.

Hyder Akbar

#5. Oh no, I
thought, tomorrow is Sunday again! Sundays seemed to be rolling
around every four days. Another two Sundays and I would be 20 years
old

Haruki Murakami

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

Oscar Micheaux

#7. 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.

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.

Oscar Micheaux

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

Oscar Micheaux

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

Oscar Micheaux

#11. It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.

Saul Bellow

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

Oscar Micheaux

#13. You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

Billy Joel

#14. The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

Mickey Rourke

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

Oscar Micheaux

#16. Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Benjamin Tucker

#17. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

Della Reese

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

Oscar Micheaux

#19. What I like best is a good story with a moral.

Oscar Micheaux