Oscar Micheaux famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Perseverance #Diligence #Hurdle
Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.
-- Oscar Micheaux

#Powerful #Destiny #Self
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

#People #World #Want
Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.
-- Oscar Micheaux

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

#Stars #Men #Race
One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.
-- Oscar Micheaux

#Men #Tasks #Teach
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

#Light #Race #People
Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment.
-- Oscar Micheaux

#Moving #Race #Force
My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.
-- Oscar Micheaux

#Class #Long #Humanity
What I like best is a good story with a moral.
-- Oscar Micheaux

#Stories #Moral
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

#Heart #Race #Views

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