Amazed Quote by Paul Robeson

For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my…

— Paul Robeson

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Often, African-Americans' work is accepted as if we did something artistic by happenstance. It's almost like, 'They make TV shows the same way they…

— Salim Akil

I've been doing African dance all my life.

— Naima Adedapo

Americans are good at making dance music.

— Ed Simons

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history…

— Jamake Highwater

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

“Finally, after years of study and watching, I realized our teachers were not just teaching steps or imparting technical knowledge, they were giving us…

— Jennifer Homans

The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.

— Li Keqiang

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens…

— Curt Sachs

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression…

— Jamake Highwater

People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I…

— Johnny Otis