Alvin Ailey quotes Born: 01/05/1931 Died: 12/01/1989 Country: usa

• Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. (Alvin Ailey) [pleasure/music]
• 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) [people/people]
• I always want more. (Alvin Ailey) [more]
• I always want to have more dancers in my company. (Alvin Ailey) [more/company]
• 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) [human/color/quality]
• I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. (Alvin Ailey) [girls]
• If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. (Alvin Ailey) [elite/find/face]
• In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. (Alvin Ailey) [business/life]
• It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. (Alvin Ailey) [willpower/take/marketing/more]
• Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world. (Alvin Ailey)
• Money is a never-ending problem. (Alvin Ailey) [money/problem]
• My feelings about myself have been terrible. (Alvin Ailey) [feelings]
• My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. (Alvin Ailey)
• No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. (Alvin Ailey) [matter]
• Nothing personal; I just don't have people over. (Alvin Ailey) [people]
• One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. (Alvin Ailey) [life]
• One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people. (Alvin Ailey) [people]
• Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. (Alvin Ailey) [tears/matter]
• Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to. (Alvin Ailey) [bad]
• 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) [process/time]
• We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work. (Alvin Ailey) [more/time]

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