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Alvin Ailey [1931-1989] American

Rank: 101
Dancer, Choreographer

Alvin Ailey was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City.

Music, Sad, Work

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Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.		101
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.	Work	102
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.		103
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.	Music	104
Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.		105
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.		106
One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.		107
Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.		108
Money is a never-ending problem.		109
I always want more.		110
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.		111
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.		112
My feelings about myself have been terrible.		113
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.		114
No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.		115
I always want to have more dancers in my company.		116
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.		117
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.	Sad	118
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.		119
We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.		120
Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.		121

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