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Alvin Ailey

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I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.


— Alvin Ailey


#attracted #head #i #little #long

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


#beings #color #human #human beings #i

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.


— Alvin Ailey


#effort #fund-raising #life #long

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.


— Alvin Ailey


#aim #black #bringing #into #marketing

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.


— Alvin Ailey


#lena #most #sweetest #woman #world

Money is a never-ending problem.


— Alvin Ailey


#never-ending #problem

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.


— Alvin Ailey


#gentle #impression #lasting #man #sad

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.


— Alvin Ailey


#enough #feel #matter #write #you

Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.


— Alvin Ailey


#just #nothing #over #people #personal

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.


— Alvin Ailey


#does #people #racism #things #worst






About Alvin Ailey

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Did you know about Alvin Ailey?

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In 1954 he and his friend Carmen De Lavallade were invited to New York to dance in the Broadway show House of Flowers by Truman Capote starring Pearl Bailey and Diahann Carroll. While he wanted to give opportunities to black dancers who were frequently excluded from performances by racist attitudes at the time he also wanted to rise above issues of negritude. Hidden Rites Alvin Ailey City Center Dance Theater New York City Center 1973.

He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1988 just one year before his death. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance.

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