You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.