I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.
Photography was my choice of weapons.
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.
Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.
But the extraordinary insight which some persons are able to gain of others from indications so slight that it is difficult to ascertain what they are, is certainly rendered more comprehensible by the view here taken.
Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed.