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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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"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 being single."
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"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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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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"Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts."
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
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"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
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"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."
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"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
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
Discrimination
"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
"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
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Freedom
"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
"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs."
People
"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."
Poverty
"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
"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
Photography
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