My dancers must be able to do ...

My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be.
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 Alvin Ailey

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Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
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Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.
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It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
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Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
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