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• And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.
• And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing…
• 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,…
• Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
• Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
• At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that…
• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at…
• So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things…
• But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back…
• Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and…
• If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

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