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

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.

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

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.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

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

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.