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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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"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."
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"Juice is a poor man's dessert."
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"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."
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"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
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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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"It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty."
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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."
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"Facing poverty is better than living in poverty and by facing poverty you can overcome it at one point."
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"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the 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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"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."
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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."
Poverty
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
Discrimination
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Freedom
"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
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