65 Quotes by Gordon Parks

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 wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work. I became devoted to my restlessness.

I have a strange feeling back here, ... I can't explain it. It's a strange mixture of the tragedies and the good things that happened here.

I don't try to make the first move; I always wait for them to make it. He was trying to go for my legs, and that's something I've worked on countering.

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

I want to go home. They're waiting for me there.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.