"Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning."

“We need to be together, and love each other.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.”

“The next way home's the farthest way about.”

“After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.”

“The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.”

Source : Ernst Fischer (1969). “Art against ideology”

“When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'”

Source : "Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim" by Matt Sloane, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2012.

“The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.”

“Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.”

Source : William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.42, Courier Corporation