Oscar Micheaux quotes
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“There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.”
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“Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.”
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“We want to see our lives dramatized on the screen as we are living it, the same as other people, the world over.”
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“Honest, intelligent criticism is an aid to the progress of an effort.”
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“Every race man and woman should cast aside their skepticism regarding the Negro's ability as a motion picture star.”
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“One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.”
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“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.”
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“Moving pictures have become one of the greatest revitalizing forces in race adjustment.”
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“My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.”
-- Oscar MicheauxSource : Oscar Micheaux (1994). “The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer”, p.73, U of Nebraska Press
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“What I like best is a good story with a moral.”
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“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
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