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Gordon Parks Quotes
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Photography was my choice of weapons (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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 (Gordon Parks Quotes)
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it (Gordon Parks Quotes)
I’ve been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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 (Gordon Parks Quotes)
The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, kodak gave me my first exhibition (Gordon Parks Quotes)
If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life (Gordon Parks Quotes)
I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn’t normally do for a young photographer just starting out (Gordon Parks Quotes)
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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. (Gordon Parks Quotes)
I’d become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake. (Gordon Parks Quotes)
You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver) (Gordon Parks Quotes)
I’ve been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing. (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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. (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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. (Gordon Parks Quotes)
I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera. (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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. (Gordon Parks Quotes)
I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try (Gordon Parks Quotes)
The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism (Gordon Parks Quotes)
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery (Gordon Parks Quotes)
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer (Gordon Parks Quotes)
Enthusiasm is the electricity of life (Gordon Parks Quotes)
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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 (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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 (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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 (Gordon Parks Quotes)
And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I’m just ready to start (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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 (Gordon Parks Quotes)
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done (Gordon Parks Quotes)
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