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… — 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
