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Alvin Ailey

"Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff."

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Donna Grant

"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"

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Donna Grant

"Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white."

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Donna Grant

"A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist."

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Donna Grant

"We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism."

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Donna Grant

"I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist."

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Donna Grant

"Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again."

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Donna Grant

"By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching."

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Donna Grant

"Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence."

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Donna Grant

"Film and novel characters are often stereotyped, but racial stereotyping in many novels or films creates & encourages labelling, discrimination & racism."

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Donna Grant

"A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression."

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Alvin Ailey
"Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world."

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Alvin Ailey
"I always want to have more dancers in my company."

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Alvin Ailey
"My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man."

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Alvin Ailey
"In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort."

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Alvin Ailey
"We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work."

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Alvin Ailey
"I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work."

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Alvin Ailey
"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people."

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Alvin Ailey
"My feelings about myself have been terrible."

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Alvin Ailey
"The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time."

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Alvin Ailey
"One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people."

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