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Gordon Parks Quotes

1912–2006 United States

Gordon Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director.

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That disadvantage sometimes pushes you, you know, if you use it right, because you want to rid yourself of those things that hurt you emotionally when you're coming up.

The boys of my gang – there were six or seven of us – none of them lived to be men, to be 21 years old, except one. All of them are dead from some violence or other, shot or cut to death before they were men, by white society…

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gordon Parks (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.