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Gordon Parks Quotes
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. - Gordon Parks Quotes
And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that Im just ready to start. - Gordon Parks Quotes
At first I wasnt 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. - Gordon Parks Quotes
But I do feel a little teeny right now that Im just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived. - Gordon Parks Quotes
But I was very disappointed that I didnt get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because theres not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group. - Gordon Parks Quotes
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. - Gordon Parks Quotes
I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away and knocking at doors, you know, seeking out encouragement where I could get it. - Gordon Parks Quotes
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand. - Gordon Parks Quotes
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done. - Gordon Parks Quotes
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 wouldnt normally do for a young photographer just starting out. - Gordon Parks Quotes
Id become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake. - Gordon Parks Quotes
Ive 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. - Gordon Parks Quotes
Its like people expect me to criticize my mother who died when I was fifteen because all I knew from her was perfection, you know? - Gordon Parks Quotes
People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930s 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. - Gordon Parks Quotes
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. - Gordon Parks Quotes
That was my first day in Washington, D.C., in 1942. I had experienced a kind of bigotry and discrimination here that I never expected to experience. - Gordon Parks Quotes
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. - Gordon Parks Quotes
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. - Gordon Parks Quotes
The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he cant walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but theyre really - the important people are the people he photographs. - Gordon Parks Quotes
The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. - Gordon Parks Quotes
Theres 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. - Gordon Parks Quotes
Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. - Gordon Parks Quotes
Well, I was born in Kansas, raised in Minnesota and spent a good part of my early life, up until I was about fifteen or sixteen, in Kansas. - Gordon Parks Quotes
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. - Gordon Parks Quotes
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