Alvin Ailey Professions : Choreographer Born : January 5, 1931 Died : December 1, 1989 Browse All Authors Top 33 quotes by Alvin Ailey To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. Alvin Ailey being-yourself inspirational life Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy. Alvin Ailey music dance teaching 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 dance inspirational believe One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. Alvin Ailey breaking-down inferiority life-is 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 dance creative time My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be. Alvin Ailey dance mirrors beautiful 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 color important trying But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work. Alvin Ailey speak Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. Alvin Ailey dancing essence feelings I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation. Alvin Ailey revelations black culture Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. Alvin Ailey choreography pleasure dance Money is a never-ending problem. Alvin Ailey never-ending problem One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people. Alvin Ailey racism doe people If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. Alvin Ailey finding-yourself racist racism We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work. Alvin Ailey chasing creative time Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. Alvin Ailey racist tears racism Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to. Alvin Ailey about-yourself reason sometimes DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close to 80 works. But it is perhaps the most comprehensive, combining biography, criticism, the analysis of dance criticism, and a sort of corporate history, siting the now firmly established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the international cultural landscape. Alvin Ailey creating texas book My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. Alvin Ailey truman lasting-impressions men Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world. Alvin Ailey sweetest adorable world Similar Authors Bruno Tonioli choreographer Arthur Mitchell choreographer Alwin Nikolais choreographer Blanca Li choreographer Alarmel Valli choreographer Benny Urquidez choreographer All Authors
