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

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)

I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.

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

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

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

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.