If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're he…

- Judith Jamison

One you've danced, you always dance.

- Judith Jamison

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and phys…

- Judith Jamison

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.

- Judith Jamison

Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.

- Judith Jamison

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

- Judith Jamison

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

- Judith Jamison

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

- Judith Jamison

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that…

- Judith Jamison