I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away and knocking at doors, you know, seeking out encouragement where I could get it.
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I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.Gordon Parks
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.
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That was my first day in Washington, D.C., in 1942. I had experienced a kind of bigotry and discrimination here that I never expected to experience.
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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.
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Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every toolshop of my mind, and with long searching and hard work.
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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.
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