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Judith Jamison Quotes

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dancer
Nationality: american
Birth: May 10, 1943

Topics

Best World Black Never Just Wanted

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.

Work Business Daily Day Me Writing

The fact that the U.S. is superior to all others allows for free commerce to take place.

Free Place Others Take Superior

No matter what age you are, there's a lot of room for learning.

Learning Age You Matter Room Lot

E-cigarettes are a tobacco product.

Product Tobacco

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Nature Women Tired Way Lovers Get

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

Man Sometimes Street Try Counts He

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Society Feel Sometimes I Feel Like

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

Boy Thirty Years

America is just downright mean.

America Mean Just Downright

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

Jonathan Stroud

Me Laugh Know Write Scared Excited

Playing the drums hurts my back.

Back Playing Drums Hurts

It's great to be able to write songs and draw on life, to write truthfully, and to be able to do that, it's good to be exploring other stuff as well.

Life Good Great Write Exploring

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