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. ”