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"I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."
"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
"If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman."
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