The 46+ Gordon Parks Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Washington, D.c. In 1942 Was Not The Easiest Place In The World For A Negro To Get Along.

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.

Success Can Be Wracking And Reproachful, To You And Those Close To You. It Can Entangle You With Legends That Are Consuming And All But Impossible To Live Up To.

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.

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.

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.

I Bought My First Camera In Seattle, Washington. Only Paid About Seven Dollars And Fifty Cents For It.

And Now, I Feel At 85, I Really Feel That I'm Just Ready To Start.

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.