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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Oscar Micheaux

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

- Oscar Micheaux