Alvin Ailey Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

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

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

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise, it wouldn't work.

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

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

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

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

Money is a never-ending problem.

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

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

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

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

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

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

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.