Alvin Ailey Quotes
22 Alvin Ailey quotes:
"Nothing personal; I just don't have people over."
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"Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to."
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"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."
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"The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time."
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"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
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"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people."
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"I always want to have more dancers in my company."
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"It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater."
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"Money is a never-ending problem."
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"I always want more."
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"Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the dance speaks to everyone. ... Otherwise it wouldn't work."
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"I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work."
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"One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people."
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"If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it."
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"My feelings about myself have been terrible."
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"We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work."
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"I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head."
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"In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort."
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"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody."
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"Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world."
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