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Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.
Alvin Ailey
People
Nothing
If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.
Alvin Ailey
Dance
Racism
World
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Alvin Ailey
Impression
Man
My feelings about myself have been terrible.
Alvin Ailey
Feelings
We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.
Alvin Ailey
Time
Work
Money is a never-ending problem.
Alvin Ailey
Money
Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
Alvin Ailey
Woman
World
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
Alvin Ailey
People
Marketing
Theater
Will
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
Alvin Ailey
Life
Business
Effort
I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.
Alvin Ailey
Girls
I always want to have more dancers in my company.
Alvin Ailey
Company
Want
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.
Alvin Ailey
Work
Quality
Trying
World
Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
Alvin Ailey
People
Dance
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Alvin Ailey
Music
Pleasure
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Alvin Ailey
Life
Inferiority