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

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now to photograph a hungry child without remembering the hunger of my old childhood.

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

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life

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

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.