My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult.

The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

Oh, my love, ' she said. 'What do the only children do?''We'll never have to know.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.

If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.

The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.

Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.