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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.
Gordon Parks
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Gordon Parks
Age: 93 †
Born: 1912
Born: November 30
Died: 2006
Died: March 7
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Gordon Alexander Buchanan Parks
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks
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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)
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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.
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Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.
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I have always felt as though I needed a weapon against evil.
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Enthusiasm is the electricity of life
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I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing.
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Think in terms of images and words. They can be mighty powerful when they are fitted together properly.
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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.
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The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
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Photography was my choice of weapons.
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Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
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Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.
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You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.
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I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.
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I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.
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I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
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I do find a certain fascination with the unpredictable. The transitory years we wade through are what they are- what we make of them.
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You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
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But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.
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And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
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