Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

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.

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

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

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

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.