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Katherine Dunham

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    Katherine Dunham

    A creative person has to #‎ create .

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    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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    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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    For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

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    Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out

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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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    I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

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

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

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    If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

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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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    I have actually five honorary degrees.

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    In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

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

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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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    I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

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    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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    Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

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    There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you're moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you.

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    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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    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.

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    We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

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    Katherine Dunham

    When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

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    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

    You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.