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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
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… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
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… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
