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Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the instrument of transferance

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So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

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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.

African American, Camera, Cameras, Racism, Sorts

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.

Against, Beautiful, Gun, Knives, Somehow, Whole

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

Inspirational, Known, Motivational, Success, Takes, Unknown

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.

Different, Eye, Heart

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

Act, Acting, Enthusiasm, Enthusiastic, Life
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