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Alvin Ailey

"My feelings about myself have been terrible."

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"My feelings about myself have been terrible."

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"I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling."

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"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."

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"In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party."

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"In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself."

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