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" 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. "
Think
Right
Poverty
" And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start. "
I Feel
Feel
Start
" 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. "
Talent
Failure
Fear
" 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. "
Start
Past
Now
" 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. "
Fighter
Back
Chance
" I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. "
Camera
First
Only
" 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. "
People
Thought
Poor
" I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand. "
Without
Freedom
Expand
" 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. "
My Life
Me
Life
" 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. "
Year
Writing
Two
" 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. "
Photographer
Young
Paris
" 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. "
Know
Time
History
" 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. "
Chicago
Fashion
Think
" 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. "
Me
Man
Good
" 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. "
World
Good
People
" 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. "
You
Yourself
Know
" The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer. "
More
Photographer
Important
" Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along. "
World
Place
Washington
" You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. "
Know
Just
Show
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