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Alvin Ailey Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 5, 1931 - December 1, 1989

Topics

Live Dance Racism Yourself World

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Sunset Technology Internet Along PC

The history of cinema appears to be easy to do, since it is, after all, made up of images; cinema appears to be the only medium where all one has to do is re-project these images so that one can see what has happened.

Jean-Luc Godard

History Easy Cinema See Up Where

Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Spider Robinson

Time Fun Me Cool Interesting You

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

Beautiful Butterfly Angry Black Now

When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside in one of those neighborhoods where all the houses look the same, where all the cars look the same and the lawns look the same, I was writing in secret.

Mother Home Writing Year Look Young

Anybody who has ever played in bars has played 'Keep Your Hands to Yourself.' It's a monumental piece of rock & roll. It makes you feel exactly like rock & roll is supposed to make you feel.

Chris Stapleton

Yourself Feel Hands You Rock Roll

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Nature Habit Moral Product Ground

I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast.

Love Moving Forward People Moving

I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.

Philippa Gregory

History You Places Big Modern Rule

Technically, at this point we're no longer with the label; we've fulfilled our contract.

Point Contract Label Our Fulfilled

In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

Music People World Think Political

When I look back at my life and think about what really happened, my memory is obscured by the stories I've created out of those incidents. In stories, as reality melds with art, the result sometimes feels truer than real life.

Life Art Memory Think Reality Look

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