Quotes by Katherine Dunham - Page 1

A creative person has to #‎ create .
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Creative
Creative Person
Persons
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I have actually five honorary degrees.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Degrees
Honorary
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You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Theatre
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We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Beautiful
Black
Justice
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I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Ed Sullivan
Song
Thinking
Sullivan
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I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Funny
Husband
Persons
I Am Happy I Am Me
Regards
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If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Dance
Hurt
Ifs
Knows
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Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Knows
Partners
Producers
Frequently
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I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Happiness
Inspirational
Inspiring
Strength
Tombstone
Used
Words
Now
Did
She
Tried
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I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Always Believe
Belief
Successful
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When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Alive
Fighting
Have Faith
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Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Strength
Blow
Emotional
Meditation Practice
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You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Dance
Essentials
Parts Of Life
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I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Admire
Admiring
Talent
Thinking
Aside
Woman
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In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Inspirational
Knowing
Overcoming
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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 / Dancer
Concerned
Hardship
Wanted
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My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Caribbean
Eclectic
Eclectic Style
Fallen
People
Work Where I Am
Within
Come
Work I Am People
Much
Africa
Am
Area
Been
Interested
Where
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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 / Dancer
Productive Life
Want
Years
Life Feel Live
Terms
So Many Years
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For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Costumes
Done
Haiti
Sufficient
Budget
Exactly
Showing
Speaking
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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 / Dancer
Husband
Rave
Reviews
Sometimes
Would Be
Good Me Sometimes
Depressed
Terribly
Manuscript
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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.
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Pbs
Success Always Know
Considered
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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 / Dancer
African American
Forever
Leap
Thinking
Begin
Thinking Your Will
Capacities
Compensate
Plan
Reduce
Something Else
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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 / Dancer
Alienation
Backgrounds
Black
Museums
People
Recognition
Should Have
World Lose People
Certainly
World Black People
Lose
Museum
Relationships
Stood
Themselves
Thus
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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 / Dancer
Art
Cactus
Creative Person
Dancer
Garden
Matter
Mexico
Wanted
Build
Person
Go
He
Could
Create
Gardens
Him
Something
Where
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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 / Dancer
Ability
Busy
Careers
Creative
Dancer
Dancing
Paint
Used
Inside
Person
Die
Very
Start Your Will
Again
Career
Dancers
Else
Makes
Recently
Something Else
Start
While
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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 / Dancer
Air
Air Conditioning
Conditioning
Heating
Museums
Trying
Central
Group
Main
Main Thing
Museum
Raise
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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 / Dancer
Careers
Inspired
Kind
People
Social
Life Great People
Advance
Career
Certainly
Follow
Great Career
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
Literally
New Kind
Private
Professional
Realize
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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 / Dancer
Accomplish
Choreography
Costumes
Eye
Husband
Knowing
Background
Designed
Great Deal
Helped
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Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
Ceremony
Etc
Haiti
Real
Rivers
Streams
Talking
Voodoo
Camera
Mountains
Photographed
Temple
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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 / Dancer
Education
Family
Influence
Prejudice
Life Family Always
Life Education Family
Life Education Always
Actually
Older
Parents
My Life
Occasion
Practiced
Racial
Realized
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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 / Dancer
Dance
Certain
Choreography
Dancing
Developing
Made
People
Wanted
Change Myself Me
Change Myself Always
Interested
Limitations
Physical
Rather
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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 / Dancer
Chicago
Development
Talent
Teachers
Aside
World Talent People
Different Places
Master
Number
World Country People
Local
Places
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We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.
Katherine Dunham / Dancer
African American
American Indian
Haitian
Indian
Rooms
Time Always Keep
African
Appalachian
Area
Exhibit
Time Will Always
Hoped
Intend
Necessarily
Room
Oriented
Same Time
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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.
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Energy
Moving
Thinking
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