Alvin Ailey Quotes
"Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Reason)
"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
(Related: Time)
"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Racism, Tears)
"One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: People, Racism)
"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Life, Inferiority)
"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Music, Pleasure)
"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
(Related: People, Dance)
"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
(Related: Work, Quality, Trying, World)
"I always want to have more dancers in my company."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Company, Want)
"I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Girls)
"In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Life, Business, Effort)
"It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: People, Marketing, Theater, Will)
"Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Woman, World)
"Money is a never-ending problem."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Money)
"We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Time, Work)
"My feelings about myself have been terrible."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Feelings)
"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Impression, Man)
"No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough."
- Alvin Ailey
"If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: Dance, Racism, World)
"Nothing personal; I just don't have people over."
- Alvin Ailey
(Related: People, Nothing)