To collect photographs is to collect the world.
In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.
With more people, there are more voices to tune out.
A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.