Concerned Quote by Katherine Dunham

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

— Katherine Dunham

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up…

— Katherine Dunham

You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.

— Katherine Dunham

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

— Katherine Dunham

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to…

— Katherine Dunham

Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have…

— Katherine Dunham

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the…

— Katherine Dunham

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

— Katherine Dunham

I have actually five honorary degrees.

— Katherine Dunham

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

— Katherine Dunham

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the…

— Katherine Dunham

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing.…

— Katherine Dunham