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All Quotes by author - Alvin Ailey

" Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the 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. "

" I always want more. "

" I always want to have more dancers in my 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. "

" If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. "

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

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

" It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. "

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

" Money is a never-ending problem. "

" My feelings about myself have been terrible. "

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

" No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. "

" Nothing personal; I just don't have people over. "

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

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

" Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. "

" Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to. "

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

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

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