Pearl Primus famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.
-- Pearl Primus

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I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.
-- Pearl Primus

#People #Joy #Helping
Why do I dance? Dance is my medicine. Itâ€™s the scream which eases for a while the terrible frustration common to all human beings who because of race, creed, or color, are â€˜invisibleâ€™. Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice.
-- Pearl Primus

#Ignorance #Fighting #Frustration

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.
I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with.
View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.
Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.

Pearl Primus famous quotes

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