List of Gordon Parks Quotes

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Gordon Parks
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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.
Writing Years Two
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.
Groups Records Might
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.
Photography Years Europe
Washington, d.c. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a negro to get along.
World Places In The World
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.
Beautiful Thinking Years
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.
Legends Impossible Consuming
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.
Fashion Thinking Trying
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.
Autumn Winter Past
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.
People Important Historic
I bought my first camera in seattle, washington. only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
Cameras Dollars Fifty
And now, i feel at 85, i really feel that i'm just ready to start.
Mastery Ready Feels
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.
Thinking Knowing People
  • Born: November 30, 1912
  • Died: March 7, 2006
  • Occupation: Photographer
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