Ailey Quotes: top 30 famous quotes about Ailey

Ailey Quotes & Sayings

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To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. — Alvin Ailey

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. — Alvin Ailey

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. — Alvin Ailey

All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don't
Alvin Ailey — Kathy Petrakis

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work. — Alvin Ailey

I always want more. — Alvin Ailey

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey. — Lisa Ann Walter

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy. — Alvin Ailey

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey

I always want to have more dancers in my company. — Alvin Ailey

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. — Alvin Ailey

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work. — Alvin Ailey

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. — Alvin Ailey

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. — Alvin Ailey

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world. — Alvin Ailey

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. — Alvin Ailey

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress. — Sanaa Lathan

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. — Alvin Ailey

Money is a never-ending problem. — Alvin Ailey

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people. — Alvin Ailey

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to. — Alvin Ailey

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time. — Alvin Ailey

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. — Alvin Ailey

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it. — Robert Battle

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation. — Alvin Ailey

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people. — Alvin Ailey

Nothing personal; I just don't have people over. — Alvin Ailey

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. — Alvin Ailey

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. — Alvin Ailey

My feelings about myself have been terrible. — Alvin Ailey