The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

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.

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

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

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.