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

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

Money is a never-ending problem.

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

Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.

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

Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

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

I always want more.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

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

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

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

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

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.

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

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

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

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

As much as everyone wants to downplay racism, it exists. There's a great mistrust among some African-Americans of white people.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

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?

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.

I love Canadians because I don't see very much racism in Canada.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them.