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

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

Alvin Ailey

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Money is a never-ending problem.

Money is a never-ending problem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.