At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

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

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

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