I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

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.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

I feel it is the heart, not the eye, that should determine the content of the photograph. What the eye sees is its own. What the heart can perceive is a very different matter.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

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.

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.

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)

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

Astonishing how tea opens the ears.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

Just as the ancients danced to call upon the spirits in nature, we too can dance to find the spirits within ourselves that have been long buried and forgotten.

The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans, we have been able to cut those deaths by two-thirds.

My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.

New York, hands down. I don't want to be there in the winter, but even then it's an amazing place.

Going to the mountains is going home.

Sometimes doing nothing is doing something.