Black Quote by Tommy Davidson

“Everyone knew the way to dance was like black people did and they all danced that way.”

— Eve Babitz

“Dance is the new black.”

— Lorana Jane

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to…

— Tracy Morgan

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

— Ray Charles

As a child I didn't understand why there were no black students in dance schools: classmates and teachers made me feel different and tried…

— Michaela DePrince

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

In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have fun.

— Goldlink

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive,…

— Andre Holland

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

— Gerald Jonas

It's called the Ailey American Dance Theatre, not the Alvin Ailey African-American Dance Theatre. One thing also that Alvin wanted people to recognize, he…

— Judith Jamison

Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right.

— Henry George Bohn

I've been doing African dance all my life.

— Naima Adedapo