Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

Hardening of the categories causes art disease.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?

I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose.

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

The journalistic photographer can have no other than a personal approach; and it is impossible for him to be completely objective. Honest—yes. Objective—no.

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

I'm very tall, so I like a guy who's bigger than me - it makes me feel feminine and safe. I don't like to be hovering over a guy or feel like a linebacker.

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

I don't know whether my husband is a genius or not, but he certainly has a dirty mind.

If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective.

It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.

They're all personal and self-created challenges that I think I've overcome within myself. Being confident enough to get on stage and play, things like that.

Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.