“At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a f...” — Gordon Parks 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.

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.

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.

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

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.