I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation. Alvin Ailey More Quotes by Alvin Ailey More Quotes From Alvin Ailey No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough. Alvin Ailey dancematterwriting My feelings about myself have been terrible. Alvin Ailey has-beensterriblefeelings I always want to have more dancers in my company. Alvin Ailey dancerdancewant It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. Alvin Ailey marketingblackpeople From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty. Alvin Ailey celebratedancebeautyworld Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone... Otherwise, it wouldn't work. Alvin Ailey dancerootsworkculture I always want more. Alvin Ailey morealwayswant Nothing personal; I just don't have people over. Alvin Ailey nothingpersonaljustpeople We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs. Alvin Ailey freeblacktalkingart 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. Alvin Ailey reachsomethingwilldance In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. Alvin Ailey effortbusinesslifelong No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. Alvin Ailey feelyouenoughmatter
