Katherine Dunham Quotes

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.

Katherine Dunham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 22, 1909 - May 21, 2006

Topics

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I'm a phys ed major: that's ballroom dancing and handball.

Joe Gibbs

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Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Andrew Jackson

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I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

Matt Stone

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love.

Andy Warhol

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I'm very grateful that I have one of those faces that seems to blend back into the crowd. A lot of people pay lip service to wanting a normal life, but it's actually very important to me.

Sophia Myles

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I was in New York for a little while, doing some really bad theater. I did some great stuff, too, but there were Saturday morning theater performances in one-third-filled church basements. So, I paid my dues.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.

Tony La Russa

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Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

Ron Chernow

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Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

Ronald Blythe

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As soon, however, as capitalist competition has definitively established the equal rate of profit, that rate becomes the starting point for the calculations of the capitalists in the investment of capital in newly-created branches of production.

Rudolf Hilferding

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I'm actually a really big board game and video game nerd.

Ross Butler

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It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

Michael Welch

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