Ailey Quotes
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Ailey Quotes & Sayings
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It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
— 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
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
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
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
— Alvin Ailey
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
— Alvin Ailey
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
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
Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.
— 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