List of Black Directors

 Spike Lee

Jordan Peele - Get Out

John Singleton

F.Gary Gary

Peebles Family

Wayans Family

Antoine Fuqua

Tyler Perry

Ossie Davis

Ice Cube - Friday

Ryan Coogler - Creed , Black Panther

JD Dillard

Malcolm D Lee - Undercover Brother, Roscoe Jenkins, Roll Bounce

Hudlin Brothers- House Party, Boomerang

You don't make mistakes, mistakes make you. Mistakes make you smarter, they make you stronger, and they make you more self reliant
-Lauler

Show me a kid that doesn't take risks and I'll show you a kid that is a nobody.

Are you willing to take a risk to do something stupid? Or are you willing to take a risk at doing something great
- lauler

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Warning Signs

True freedom requires sacrifice and pain. Most human beings only think they want freedom. In truth they yearn for the bondage of social order, rigid laws, and materialism. The only freedom a man really wants is the freedom to be comfortable. - Sons of Anarchy

"Sometimes you just gotta kick fear in the face... push em down the hill.. and watch em get splattered by a runaway Mack truck" - Ralph G Jordan IV

"Purpose creates an opportunity for value creation. Passion follows purpose. Passion creates energy, money is attracted to energy." - Garrett Gunderson

Plautus - "Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."

"If at first you do succeed try not to look too surprised."- ???

"Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it."-???

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it.The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." -Henry Ford

"I would have freed more slaves if only they knew they were slaves." - Harriett Tubbmann

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - 'Dead Poet's Society'

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." -Richard Bach

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." -Zig Ziglar

"If music be the food of love, play on." -Shakespeare

"Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another." -Richard Bach

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." -Elizabeth Kubler Ross

Trying is Having The Intention To Fail, You Gotta Scrap That Word From Your Vocab, Say Your Gonna Do It,And You will- Sydney, I Love You Man

"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." - Robert Frost

We Are All Only One Decision From Greatness- HNIC

Ultimate Failure is Effortless

”The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” - John Maxwell

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George W. Carver

The Key To Success Is Realizing That The Door Isn't Locked- ???

"Hope you enjoy the taste of my name as it rolls off the tip of your tongue.."- Hater Hater

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Milton Berle

"... People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing- that's why we recommend it daily." - Zig Ziglar

"If You're Embarrassed By Selling, You Work For Somebody Who Isn't" - Joe Schroeder

You will never out earn your lips- Joe Schroeder

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.- Jim Rohn

Enjoy Life, there's plenty of time to be Dead- ???

Formal education will make you living , self education will make you a fortune- Jim Rohn

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better - Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between your goals and accomplishment- Jim Rohn

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want." - Anthony Robbins

Flatter me, I may not believe you. Criticize me, I may not like you. Ignore me, I may not forgive you. Encourage me, I may not forget you. ~William Arthur Ward

Whatever a mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve... - Napolean Hill

You must be able to give without want before you can have- Mike Dillard

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but so is stupidity- HNIC

I don't want to make a living. I want to spend my life, making a life.
A life that makes a difference. Life built on love and compassion. -Neale Donald Walsch

If want to create abundance for yourself, create it for someone else.- Neale Donald Walsch

"To have more, we must first become more." Jim Rohn

Learn To Work Harder On Yourself Than You Do On Your Job. If you work hard on your job it makes you a living. If you work hard on Yourself…it will make you a fortune!- Jim Rohn

To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publius Syrus

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Chinese Proverb

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Many only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Author Unknown

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is:
Try to please everybody.
-Herbert Bayard Swope

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and perseverance.
Owen Feltham

One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
-Alexander Chase

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
-Latin Proverb

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
-Solomon Ibn Gabriol

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. - Henry Ford

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful- Albert Schweitzer

Why do we fall down? To learn to pick ourselves up. - Batman Returns

Prayer should be used as a steering wheel, not as a spare tire.- ???

Newton first law of inertia: things at rest tend to stay at rest unless a force is applied to it. Things in motion tend to stay in motion unless a force is applied to it.

If you don't know where you're going, you're probably already there.- Paula white

People don't plan to fail, they simply fail to plan. - ???

I could tell my parents hated me as a kid. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.- Rodney Dangerfield

Beware Karma Niyama: Reciprocity can be a kick in the face

Life is a rollercoaster. Enjoy the Ride!!!

It is what it is.- HNIC

Always remember, worse things have happened to much better people- HNIC

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all the world needs dreamers that do. Sarah Ban Breathnach

It's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you- "Rachel",Batman Begins

Small minds discuss people. Average people discuss events. Great Minds discuss ideas.-Eleanor Roosevelt

Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol.

Trust is keeping your mouth shut- Ralph Jordan IV

There's gonna be some stuff that's gonna make it hard to smile in the future. But whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep a sense of humor through all this bullshit- Tupac Shakur

Whether you think that you can or think you can't, you are usually right- Henry Ford

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze

Success comes not from what God gives you, but what you do with it.- Gladiator (1992)

If it smells like fish & it tastes like chicken, hold your nose & keep on lickin'

If, if, were a fifth we'd all be drunk- Overton, Living Single

Forget what any idiot tells you: Time is not money.
Anything lost can be found again...except for time wasted- Samuel L Jackson,Fresh