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

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

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

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.

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

I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer