I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

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

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.