Achievement Quote by Gordon Parks

“Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.”

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You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

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The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

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I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

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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…

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I was born to a black childhood of confusion and poverty. The memory of that beginning influences my work today, It is impossible now…

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I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a…

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I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.

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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…

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The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later,…

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Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work,…

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Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.

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I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

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