I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.

Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.

Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.

If we do not master ourselves, we will be a slave to ourselves.

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

I don't know what people mean when they ask me whether I'm embracing my whiteness. Whiteness is ubiquitous.

I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.