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To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.
I always want to have more dancers in my company.
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.
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.
I always want more.
We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.
My feelings about myself have been terrible.
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.
Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Money is a never-ending problem.
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
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.
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.
But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
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.
One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
