Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.

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.

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.

At first I wasn't 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.

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

You have a 45mm automatic pistol on your lap, and I have a 35mm camera on my lap, and my weapon is just as powerful as yours. (To Black Panther militant Eldridge Cleaver)

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty.

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.

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

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

Jesus Christ is our Saviour.

A little of God will not move the hand of God.

Art does what reality cannot.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don't take themselves too seriously.

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.

Pain is just another form of information.

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

You know only insofar as you can measure.

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.