Quotes by Gordon Parks

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

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Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro...

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There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself...

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The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.

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The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through...

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The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept...

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So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I...

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People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the...

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I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for...

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I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what...

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I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau....

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I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of...

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