"People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the import..." — Gordon Parks

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

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.

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.