You Know, The Camera Is Not Meant

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.

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.

I Had Known Poverty Firsthand, But There I Learned How To Fight Its Evil - Along With The Evil Of Racism - With A Camera.

The Camera Could Be A Very Powerful Instrument Against Discrimination, Against Poverty, Against Racism.

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.