Katherine Dunham Quotes

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• When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.
• 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…
• I have actually five honorary degrees.
• I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
• 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…
• Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.
• I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
• 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…
• A creative person has to #‎ create .
• 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…
• We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.
• We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main…
• I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.
• 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…
• 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…
• I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind…
• I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms…
• Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is…
• 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…
• 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…

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