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

My feelings about myself have been terrible..

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

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

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..

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation..

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

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..

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

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living..

Money is a never-ending problem..

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

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….

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

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work..

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

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

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