We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
- Alvin Ailey
More, Studio, Still, Funds
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
- Alvin Ailey
Life, Business, Effort, Fund-Raising
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
- Alvin Ailey
Racism, Tears, Achieve, Snuff
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
Process, Turn, Controlled, Switch
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
- Alvin Ailey
Sad, Impression, Terribly, Capote
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
- Alvin Ailey
Music, Studio, Getting, Choreography
My feelings about myself have been terrible.
- Alvin Ailey
Myself, Been, About, Feelings
Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
- Alvin Ailey
Woman, World, Most, Sweetest
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
Back, Always, Everybody, I Believe
Money is a never-ending problem.
- Alvin Ailey
Money, Problem, Never-Ending
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
- Alvin Ailey
Processes, Break, Your, Inferiority
Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
- Alvin Ailey
Reason, Sometimes, Bad, No Reason
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
Work, Color, Show, Beings
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
- Alvin Ailey
Racism, World, Face, Elite
I always want to have more dancers in my company.
- Alvin Ailey
More, Always, Dancers, Company
No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.
- Alvin Ailey
Enough, Matter, Feel, Choreograph
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
- Alvin Ailey
Long, Head, Attracted, Arms
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
- Alvin Ailey
Aim, Sophisticated, Very, Bringing
One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
- Alvin Ailey
Racism, Young, Young People, Worst
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