Alvin ailey

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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