I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.' 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 emotional strength blow 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 energy moving thinking I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were. Katherine Dunham always-believe successful belief When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it. Katherine Dunham alive fighting have-faith We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it. Katherine Dunham black justice beautiful 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 dancer careers dancing You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me. Katherine Dunham parts-of-life essentials dance 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 concerned hardship wanted In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared. Katherine Dunham knowing overcoming inspirational A creative person has to # create . Katherine Dunham creative-person creative persons 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 dancer garden art 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-style fallen people If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. Katherine Dunham dance hurt knows 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 dancing dance people 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-have museums people I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman. Katherine Dunham admire talent thinking 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-american forever thinking 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-indian african-american rooms 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 husband eye knowing 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 real rivers talking
