There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism. — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them. — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work,… — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. — Gordon Parks Copy Share Image
