I remember growing up and hearing the word "ugly" a lot. "I'm ugly." "She ugly." "He ugly." I hated it then, and I hate it now. I go past physical beauty; I tell people they have a beautiful spirit and… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
When a photographer or a person sees your beauty, your inner beauty, it makes you feel special like, "Wow, someone saw that within me." — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams. — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Photography is humbling, it really is, and it really allows for me to atone for some of the missteps I've made throughout the course… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way. They might have been killers in Vietnam, but I'm seeing another side of them, and looking at images of the the American soldiers, also the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong - I never saw an… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share
The majority of the people I've taken photographs of, I've had conversations with. "What are your goals and aspirations?" "What are you about?" It's… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
The images of war inspired me to create, to go to different situations and communities, to document the human side of people, to show… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I read a recent statistic that eighty-seven percent of women are dissatisfied with themselves, and over forty-seven percent of men. My work is visu-medicine… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I think that photography has allowed me to have a voice. I used to stutter, and once I overcame that struggle, it felt good… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I think what it was with the war photography was the concerned eye, the desire to document these situations to show the world the… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show… — Jamel Shabazz Copy Share Image
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