1. Currently on view at the Schomburg: Gordon Parks: 100 Moments Through December 1, 2012 Photo via ralston smith on Lockerz

    Currently on view at the Schomburg:

    Gordon Parks: 100 Moments
    Through December 1, 2012

    Photo via ralston smith on Lockerz

  2. “My mother had freed me from the curse of inferiority long before she had died by not letting me take refuge in the excuse that I had been born black. She had given me ambition and purpose, and set the course I had since traveled … I didn’t know what lay ahead of me, but I believed in myself. My deepest instincts told me I would not perish. Poverty and bigotry would still be around but at last I could fight them on even terms. The important thing was the choice of weapons with which to fight them most effectively.” —Gordon Parks, A Choice of Weapons Photo Credit: Photographer Unknown. Photographs & Prints Division , Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

    “My mother had freed me from the curse of inferiority long before she had died by not letting me take refuge in the excuse that I had been born black. She had given me ambition and purpose, and set the course I had since traveled … I didn’t know what lay ahead of me, but I believed in myself. My deepest instincts told me I would not perish. Poverty and bigotry would still be around but at last I could fight them on even terms. The important thing was the choice of weapons with which to fight them most effectively.” —Gordon Parks, A Choice of Weapons

    Photo Credit: Photographer Unknown. Photographs & Prints Division , Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.