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"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."
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"Poverty is being single."
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."
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"Poverty is spiritual halitosis."
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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
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"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."
Chance
"I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake."
Thought
"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know."
People
"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."
Time
"People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other."
History
"I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing."
Life
"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."
Career
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
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"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."
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"And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start."
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