I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

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

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

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

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

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