I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were. Katherine Dunham More Quotes by Katherine Dunham More Quotes From Katherine Dunham Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out Katherine Dunham emotionalstrengthblow There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you're moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you. Katherine Dunham energymovingthinking I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.' Katherine Dunham strengthhappinessinspirational When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it. Katherine Dunham alivefightinghave-faith We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it. Katherine Dunham blackjusticebeautiful So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person. Katherine Dunham dancercareersdancing You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me. Katherine Dunham parts-of-lifeessentialsdance I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do. Katherine Dunham concernedhardshipwanted In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared. Katherine Dunham knowingovercominginspirational A creative person has to # create . Katherine Dunham creative-personcreativepersons A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. Katherine Dunham dancergardenart My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa. Katherine Dunham eclectic-stylefallenpeople If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. Katherine Dunham dancehurtknows I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people. Katherine Dunham dancingdancepeople Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town. Katherine Dunham should-havemuseumspeople I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman. Katherine Dunham admiretalentthinking Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else. Katherine Dunham african-americanforeverthinking We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit. Katherine Dunham american-indianafrican-americanrooms Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. Katherine Dunham husbandeyeknowing Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony. Katherine Dunham realriverstalking
