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Nothing came easy. I was just ...

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

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But I was very disappointed th...

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

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I do find a certain fascinatio...

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 49 quotes

So I went to Chicago in 1940, ...

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

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And I think that after nearly ...

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.

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I've been asked if I think the...

I've been asked if I think there will ever come a time when all people come together. I would like to think there will. All we can do is hope and dream and work toward that end. And that's what I've tried to do all my life.

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And now, I feel at 85, I reall...

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

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Success can be wracking and re...

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

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I saw that the camera could be...

I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

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At first I wasn't sure that I ...

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 me to fight off anything that might abet it.

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Use anger to emotionalize what...

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

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Many times I wondered whether ...

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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I picked up a camera because i...

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

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I bought my first camera in Se...

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

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The photographer begins to fee...

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

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I suffered evils, but without ...

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

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But I do feel a little teeny r...

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 arrived.

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The subject matter is so much ...

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

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The guy who takes a chance, wh...

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

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Washington, D.C. in 1942 was n...

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

Gordon Parks 49 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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