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I'm attracted to long-legged ...

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

I am trying to show the world...

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.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

I'm interested in putting som...

I'm interested in putting something on stage that will have a very wide appeal without being condescending; that will reach an audience and make it part of the dance; that will get everybody in the theater.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

One of the processes of your ...

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

Everything in dancing is styl...

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

Making dances is an act of pr...

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

DeFrantz's study...is not the...

DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

My dancers must be able to do...

My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

One of the worst things about...

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

Money is a never-ending probl...

Money is a never-ending problem.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

No matter what you write or c...

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

I feel an obligation to use b...

I feel an obligation to use black dancers because there must be more opportunities for them, but not because I'm a black choreographer talking to black people.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

In this business, life is one...

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

We still spend more time chas...

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

Its roots are in American Neg...

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.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

My lasting impression of Trum...

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

Lena Horne is the sweetest an...

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

The creative process is not c...

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

Dance is for everybody. I bel...

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

We talk too much of black art...

We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.

Alvin Ailey 51 quotes

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