Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

The greatest writers are the ones not afraid to share their heartbreak and pain for the world to read.They are fearless and freely in sharing their heart to heal other wounds with their story.

Everyday, everytime we cant be happy, we cant keep smiling. Sometime smile may lost or something depress us. But this is the main challenge to bring smile back and stay happy everytime...

It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.

For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body.

Where is the yesterday that worried us so.

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's much easier for them to bridge that gap.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.