To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little boxes that ….

Hardly anything wrong can go bad..

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both ….

I'm a professional historian. I do my research. I have a PhD. What does my race have to do with it?.

I love women more than anything..

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how….

I must have true love or nothing..

I've never tried to be something I'm not..

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present..

Travel definitely affects me as a writer..

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upo….

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there..

The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color prob….

Always sing below your potential..

On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be a….

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them..

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard..

It is not customary to love what one has..

No one places any trust in the words of the Americans..

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that..

Religion is a byproduct of fear..