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I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and...

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, public, creation, opinion, country, people

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.

Quote by Gordon Parks about opinion, poverty, rightness

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready...

And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.

Quote by Gordon Parks about age

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.

Quote by Gordon Parks about talent, fear, failure, fight

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just...

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

Quote by Gordon Parks about autumn, past, rightness

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.

Quote by Gordon Parks about opinion, chance

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only...

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away...

I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away and knocking at doors, you know, seeking out encouragement where I could get it.

Quote by Gordon Parks about interest, encouragement, contentment

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to...

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

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography, poverty, fight

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of...

I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in...

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.

Quote by Gordon Parks about influence, common sense, sense, work, life, people

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...

Quote by Gordon Parks

I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake.

Quote by Gordon Parks about opinion, people, bad luck, thinking, bad, things

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth...

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.

Quote by Gordon Parks about time, solitude

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

Quote by Gordon Parks about people, things, history, time

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

The man at Kodak told me the shots were very good and if I kept it up, they would give me an exhibition. Later, Kodak gave me my first exhibition.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography, good, good luck, man

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really the important people are the people he photographs.

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography, people, world, good, good luck

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

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

Quote by Gordon Parks about photography

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.

Quote by Gordon Parks about nation, contentment, people

Well, I was born in Kansas, raised in Minnesota and spent...

Well, I was born in Kansas, raised in Minnesota and spent a good part of my early life, up until I was about fifteen or sixteen, in Kansas.

Quote by Gordon Parks about birh, good, good luck, life

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