"Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, â€˜put your hand on top.â€™ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage."

-- Arthur Mitchell

#Men Quotes #White Quotes #Rights Quotes

“All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.”
“Itâ€™s better to live like a flame, to know a man and love him even if he canâ€™t be yours, then never to love at all.”
“I entertain no doubts as to the truths of the tranfinites, which I recognized with God's help and which, in their diversity, I have studied for more than twenty years; every year, and almost every day brings me further in this science.”

Source : "Modern Mathematicians". Book by Harry Henderson, 1995.
“Whenever I do a deal I always have the right of approval.”
“You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.”

Source : "A Call to Action: Why Our Health Matters" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.
“The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.”
“If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.”
“I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures”

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