Alvin Ailey Quotes

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

Work, Important, Human

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

Dance, Everybody, Delivered

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

Life, Down, Somebody

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

Music, Getting, Pleasure

My feelings about myself have been terrible.
Alvin Ailey

Feelings, Terrible

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

Racism, Down, Matter

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

Yourself, Bad, Sometimes

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

Time, Creative, Off

I always want more.
Alvin Ailey

I always want to have more dancers in my company.
Alvin Ailey

Company, Dancers

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

Long, Head, Arms

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

Yourself, Live, Racism

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

Life, Business, Long

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

Black, Marketing, Achieve

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

Woman, Adorable, Sweetest

Money is a never-ending problem.
Alvin Ailey

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

Sad, Sensitive, Impression

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

Enough, Matter, Write

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

Nothing, Personal

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

Racism, Young, Worst

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

Work, Time, Creative

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: January 5, 1931

Died: December 1, 1989

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