I have actually five honorary degrees. – Katherine Dunham
We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings. – Katherine Dunham
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didnt always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadnt yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion. – Katherine Dunham
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.