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.

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

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

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

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

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

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