All GORDON PARKS Quotes about “Choices”

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

“Photography was my choice of weapons.”
“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.”

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