Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Oscar Micheaux

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux was an author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race films, and has been described as "the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century". He produced both silent films and sound films.

Author | January 2, 1884 - March 25, 1951

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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

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

Oscar Micheaux

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

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

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

Oscar Micheaux

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

Oscar Micheaux

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

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 greater heights.

Oscar Micheaux

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

Oscar Micheaux

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

Oscar Micheaux

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

Oscar Micheaux