Success Can Be Wracking And Reproachful, To

And Now, I Feel At 85, I Really Feel That I'm Just Ready To Start.

I Have Never Known Anyone Important Enough To Consume Me In Anger Beyond A Few Hours. Better To Depart Their Existence Before They Poison Your Own.

Success Can Be Wracking And Reproachful, To You And Those Close To You. It Can Entangle You With Legends That Are Consuming And All But Impossible To Live Up To.

I Picked Up A Camera Because It Was My Choice Of Weapons Against What I Hated Most About The Universe: Racism, Intolerance, Poverty. I Could Have Just As Easily Picked Up A Knife Or A Gun, Like Many Of My Childhood Friends Did... Most Of Whom Were Murdered Or Put In Prison... But I Chose Not To Go That Way. I Felt That I Could Somehow Subdue These Evils By Doing Something Beautiful That People Recognize Me By, And Thus Make A Whole Different Life For Myself, Which Has Proved To Be So.

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.