Oscar Micheaux Quotes

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

  Oscar Micheaux

  Men, Tasks, Teach

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

  Oscar Micheaux

  Powerful, Destiny, Self

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

  Oscar Micheaux

  Success, Perseverance, Diligence

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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.

  Oscar Micheaux

  Light, Race, People

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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.

  Oscar Micheaux

  People, World, Want

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

  Oscar Micheaux

  Moving, Race, Force

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

  Oscar Micheaux

  Intelligent, Effort, Criticism

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• What I like best is a good story with a moral.

  Oscar Micheaux

  Stories, Moral, Good Story

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• 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

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Heart, Race, Views

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

  Oscar Micheaux

  Class, Long, Humanity

  Oscar Micheaux (1994). “The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer”, p.73, U of Nebraska Press

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