Color Quote by Alvin Ailey

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“I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.”

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Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

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One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

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If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

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One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

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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…

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I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

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No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

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Money is a never-ending problem.

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