I Suffered First As A Child From

I've Been Asked If I Think There Will Ever Come A Time When All People Come Together. I Would Like To Think There Will. All We Can Do Is Hope And Dream And Work Toward That End. And That's What I've Tried To Do All My Life.

I Was Born To A Black Childhood Of Confusion And Poverty. The Memory Of That Beginning Influences My Work Today, It Is Impossible Now To Photograph A Hungry Child Without Remembering The Hunger Of My Old Childhood.

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.

I Feel It Is The Heart, Not The Eye, That Should Determine The Content Of The Photograph. What The Eye Sees Is Its Own. What The Heart Can Perceive Is A Very Different Matter.

Enthusiasm Is The Electricity Of Life