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Katherine Dunham

"I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it.""

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Aberjhani

"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

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Aberjhani

"Do not postpone your problems, solve them now! Because tomorrow you might be weaker than today and there might arise additional problems! Unsheathe your sword now; forget tomorrow, time is now!"

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Aberjhani

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

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Aberjhani

"Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched."

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Aberjhani

"The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing."

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Aberjhani

"Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail."

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Aberjhani

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

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Aberjhani

"What was previously perceived as nerdy is now viewed as original. What I like about nerdiness, geekiness, is it doesn't really matter what you're into - it just means you're not a follower."

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Aberjhani

"I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen."

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Aberjhani

"I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me."

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Katherine Dunham
"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."

Gardening

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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."

Talent

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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
"We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings."

Success

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Katherine Dunham
"Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about."

Public

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Katherine Dunham
"We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning."

Building

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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."

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."

Work

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Katherine Dunham
"I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song."

Music

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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."

Life

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