“We're professionals, everybody scores. It's just a matter of limiting ...” — Jabari Parker Quote

We're professionals, everybody scores. It's just a matter of limiting them as much as you can and trying to contain them.

Growing up, I admired old cars. In Chicago, on the South Side, people didn't have the newest cars, but one thing I always noticed was that they took good care of their cars. It was a pride thing. Even if you had a funky Oldsmobile, you kept it clean. You changed the oil. You took a toothbrush to the rims.

My parents, they come from different backgrounds. They don't even value money.

Black Lives Matter and police brutality are issues that are important to me.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough - there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph.

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.