Caribbean Quote by Katherine Dunham

“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 area of Africa.”

Katherine Dunham

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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I have actually five honorary degrees.

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

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

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

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