To Be Who You Are And Become

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.

Dance Is For Everybody. I Believe That The Dance Came From The People And That It Should Always Be Delivered Back To The People.

The Creative Process Is Not Controlled By A Switch You Can Simply Turn On Or Off; It's With You All The Time.

My Dancers Must Be Able To Do Anything, And I Don't Care If They Are Black Or White Or Purple Or Green. I Want To Help Show My People How Beautiful They Are. I Want To Hold Up The Mirror To My Audience That Says This Is The Way People Can Be, This Is How Open People Can Be.

Defrantz's Study...is Not The First Book About The Protean Ailey, Who Was Born In Hardscrabble Texas In 1931 And Died In 1989 After Creating Close To 80 Works. But It Is Perhaps The Most Comprehensive, Combining Biography, Criticism, The Analysis Of Dance Criticism, And A Sort Of Corporate History, Siting The Now Firmly Established Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater In The International Cultural Landscape.