Choreography is mentally draining, but theres a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. – Alvin Ailey
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. – Alvin Ailey
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
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his masters commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style. – W. H. Auden