I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think there will. All we can do is hope and dream and work toward that end. And that's what I've tried to do all my life.

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

I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think there will. All we can do is hope and dream and work toward that end. And that's what I've tried to do all my life.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

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

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

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.