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