"Music can shoot through the musician like lightening through the sky if that music is unobstructed by thoughts."

“I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.”

Source : "Ailey's Troupe Explores Its Roots". Interview with Jennifer Dunning, www.nytimes.com. November 27, 1983.

“The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.”

“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”

“Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.”

“The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.”

“Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.”

“I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.”

Source : Ann Rinaldi (1995). “A Stitch in Time”, p.97, Scholastic Inc.

“For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love...”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.230, W. W. Norton & Company