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

I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.

Photography was my choice of weapons.

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

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

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

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