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

- Oscar Micheaux

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

- Oscar Micheaux

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

- Oscar Micheaux

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

- Oscar Micheaux

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

- Oscar Micheaux

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

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 g…

- Oscar Micheaux

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

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

- Oscar Micheaux