"I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera."

-- Gordon Parks

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“There are those of us who believe that under certain conditions the cruelest thing you can do to people you love is to force them to live. There are those of us who define living not by whether the heart beats and the lungs lift but whether the spirit is there, whether the music box plays.”
“I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.”
“Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.”
“These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.”
“Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.”
“Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain.”
“I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.”
“There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.”

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