Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.

...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

Hard to explain to a guard dog that you need it to protect you from yourself.

Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.