Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. - Alvin Ailey
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
- Alvin Ailey
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. - Alvin Ailey
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.
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
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
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
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.
Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world. - Alvin Ailey
Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. - Alvin Ailey
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
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… - Alvin Ailey
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…
But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work. - Alvin Ailey
But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. - Alvin Ailey
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
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