Alvin Ailey

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

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

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Money is a never-ending problem.

I feel an obligation to use black dancers because there must be more opportunities for them, but not because I'm a black choreographer talking to black people.

I'm interested in putting something on stage that will have a very wide appeal without being condescending; that will reach an audience and make it part of the dance; that will get everybody in the theater.

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

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

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

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

I always want to have more dancers in my company.