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

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

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. Enthusiasm is natural; it is being alive, taking the initiative, seeing the importance of what you do, giving it dignity and making what you do important to yourself and to others.

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

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.