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Alvin Ailey quotes

We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.

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From his roots as a slave, the American Negro - sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful - has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.

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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.

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

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