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We weren’t pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don’t you will die inside as a person. (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
Without my husband’s costumes I wouldn’t have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind’s eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
A creative person has to create. It doesn’t really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you’re prepared (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
You know, this isn’t theatre like it used to be (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
I have actually five honorary degrees (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn’t always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn’t yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you’re moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
I wasn’t concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
Without my husband’s costumes I wouldn’t have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind’s eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he’ll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn’t know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don’t you will die inside as a person (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
Don’t think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else (Katherine Dunham Quotes)
Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town (Katherine Dunham Quotes)