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"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."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."
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"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
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"The longest walk of your life does not happen when you walk great distances lonely but it happens when you walk very shortly with the boring people!"
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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery."
Photography
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Freedom
"At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it."
Talent
"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."
Career
"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
"And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start."
Now
"I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it."
Career
"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
Discrimination
"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 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."
Career
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