44 Quotes by Alvin Ailey

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

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

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

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

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

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

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

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.