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Browse top 19 most favorite famous quotes and sayings by Alvin Ailey.

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1. "I always want to have more dancers in my company." ~ Alvin Ailey
2. "I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head." ~ Alvin Ailey
3. "If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it." ~ Alvin Ailey
4. "In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort." ~ Alvin Ailey
5. "It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater." ~ Alvin Ailey
6. "Money is a never-ending problem." ~ Alvin Ailey
7. "My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man." ~ Alvin Ailey
8. "To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living." ~ Alvin Ailey
9. "There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy." ~ Alvin Ailey
10. "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
11. "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
12. "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
13. "One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody." ~ Alvin Ailey
14. "Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music." ~ Alvin Ailey
15. "My feelings about myself have been terrible." ~ Alvin Ailey
16. "Nothing personal; I just don't have people over." ~ Alvin Ailey
17. "Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff." ~ Alvin Ailey
18. "Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world." ~ Alvin Ailey
19. "I always want more." ~ Alvin Ailey

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