I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

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