I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
Gordon ParksRead
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the value of hard work and the pursuit of personal exploration despite challenges.
Gordon Parks reflects on his journey of personal growth, highlighting that nothing of value comes effortlessly. His innate drive to explore his thoughts and creativity required dedication and perseverance, ultimately leading him to a deep commitment to understanding himself and the world around him through continuous effort and introspection.
In practice
In a motivational speech to college students about pursuing their passions.
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.
If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much.
The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.
Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the servants offer and had said to him instead, βlet me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be - let me be a woman'?
The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.
If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.
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