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Katherine Dunham

"I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman."

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Donna Grant

"Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born."

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Donna Grant

"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."

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Donna Grant

"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."

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Donna Grant

"Worried about being a dull fellow? You might develop your talent for being irritating."

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Donna Grant

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

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Donna Grant

"There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something."

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Donna Grant

"He has tongue of a writer."

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Donna Grant

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?"

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Donna Grant

"Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius."

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Donna Grant

"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

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Katherine Dunham
"I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

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