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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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"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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"Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life."

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"You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying."

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"To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things."

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"No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!"

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"Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets."

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"I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there."

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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."
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"You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be."
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"I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it.""
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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."
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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."
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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."
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