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.

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.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

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

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

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.