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.

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

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

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

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

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.