Katherine Dunham Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A creative person has to #‎ create .

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

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.

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

I have actually five honorary degrees.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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