"Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity."

“When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has almost the embodiment of a prayer.”

Source : Julia Margaret Cameron, Anita Ventura Mozley (1974). “"Mrs. Cameron's Photographs from the Life": Exhibition Held 22 January-10 March 1974, Stanford University Museum of Art”

“I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

“That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.”

“People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power”

“I came home from Portugal convinced that nothing is so important as making known what the Mother of God asked in those apparitions of 1917 . . . The future of our civilization, our liberties, our very existence may depend upon the acceptance of her commands.”

Source : William Thomas Walsh (1947). “Our Lady of Fátima”

“You'll often find that people's declared preferences - what they say they want - are far different from their revealed preferences - what they actually do.”

“Dean Meminger was quicker than 11:15 Mass at a seaside resort.”

“I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.”