I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

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)

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

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.

Only time will set you free, just like me

Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right

There is nothing in the world more pathetic than a bunch of wilted dandelions.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.