Micheaux Film Quotes & Sayings

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful. — Orla Brady

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. — Victor Hugo

Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom. — Amos Smith

The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive. — Guy Maddin

Kind words are such a blessing to the needful, if one but knew the pleasure that they bring. — John McLeod

Annella frantically searched through the sea of people, afraid she was about to drown. Then relief washed over her when she met her father's gaze and made her way back to him. But as she stepped closer, all pleasure left her. A crimson liquid pooled over the fingers that he held to his throat.
"Anne," he choked out....
A piercing scream traveled through the streets of Venice. — Victoria Roberts

My whole life, you have made decisions for me."
"Your whole life," Georgiana pointed out, "totals nine years. — Sarah MacLean