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Think In Terms Of Images And Words. They Can Be Mighty Powerful When They Are Fitted Together Properly.

I Do Find A Certain Fascination With The Unpredictable. The Transitory Years We Wade Through Are What They Are- What We Make Of Them.

People In Millenniums Ahead Will Know What We Were Like In The 1930's And The Thing That, The Important Major Things That Shaped Our History At That Time. This Is As Important For Historic Reasons As Any Other.

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.

I Was Born To A Black Childhood Of Confusion And Poverty. The Memory Of That Beginning Influences My Work Today, It Is Impossible Now To Photograph A Hungry Child Without Remembering The Hunger Of My Old Childhood.