Author: Alvin Ailey

Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Money is a never-ending problem.

- Alvin Ailey

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

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

- Alvin Ailey

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

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

- Alvin Ailey

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

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

- Alvin Ailey

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