He was a photographer, but he was much more, and we could all learn from Gordon Parks' example of hard work and showing people things they wouldn't otherwise see. Wil Haygood with an appreciation:
In America, he used his cameras like six-shooters, aiming right at the nation's broken souls, her sad-eyed children, her blacks, browns and whites, her shoeshine men and faceless women with both dishrag and dignity.
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