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I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try. — Gordon Parks

Don't think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love. — Oscar Wilde

[The Koran is one of] the most stubborn enemies of Civilisation, Liberty, and the Truth which the world has yet known. — William Muir

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

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera. — Gordon Parks

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

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. — Gordon Parks

All will be lost apart from happiness. — Jacques Prevert

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. — Gordon Parks

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. — Gordon Parks

I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil. — Gordon Parks

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. — Gordon Parks

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start. — Gordon Parks

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

[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly. — Gordon Parks

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand. — Gordon Parks

I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall ... and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your scent fades. — Brandi L. Bates

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love. — Gordon Parks

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

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life. — Gordon Parks

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

I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them. — Gordon Parks

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition. — Gordon Parks

Photography was my choice of weapons. — Gordon Parks

On Halloween, witches come true;
Wild ghosts escape from dreams.
Each monster dances in the park ... — Nick Gordon

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer — Gordon Parks

I am a forgettable leaf on a tree. — Gregory Maguire

Actually, the Department of Transport were at one stage going to sack me. — David Prowse

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own. — Gordon Parks

Magic was not a required course. He could have a degree in Wiffle ball for all I knew. — Devon Monk

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived. — Gordon Parks

I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity. — Vincent Cassel

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

Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. — Gordon Parks