- Gordon Parks: Those moments without proper names - where terror is told in the wrinkling old faces and patched coats of old men smothering slowly inside the events of grander men.
- Gordon Parks: At times, especially in the adolescence of my career, I allowed my camera to pass judgment upon people, without first taking time to understand them. I took refuge in the erroneous adage that a photograph never lies. Since then, I have learned that what a man is, is not always shown on the face he wears. Usually, there's a deep truth submerged inside, often imprisoned by his most constant enemy: himself.
- Gordon Parks: So few of us even manage to know ourselves in a lifetime. Shifting from course to course, we search for a hunger to keep us moving, frightened of whatever it is that keeps us so unsure of ourselves. Finally, we fall exhausted, entangled in a bed of remarkable excuses from which we are unable to extricate ourselves.
- Gordon Parks: In these odd moments, love gathered like butterflies on soft beating wings. Puzzling moments - understood by only those who lived them. A heartbeat away from some aging mistress voicing her somber winter song. Good moments - fragile as lillies.
- Gordon Parks: So, that's what it amounts to: time, moving on, unwaveringly. One snip of it is undetainable - even for one millisecond. Relentlessly it flows, measuring our dreams before they drop from sight, like slow falling stars.
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By what name was Moments Without Proper Names (1987) officially released in Canada in English?
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