Have a huge work ethic, be ambitious, aggressive, tough.
I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.
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.
I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did. . . most of whom were murdered or put in prison. . . but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
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. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.
The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.
Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, 'Hey, why not you Roseanne?' Indeed, why not each of us?
We're non-diversified. We focus. Why not buy more of your best idea rather than your 60th best idea? How many companies can I really know well over time and focus on, on a daily basis?