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I have actually five honorary degrees.
Katherine Dunham -
There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you're moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you...
Katherine Dunham
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A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.
Katherine Dunham -
I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.
Katherine Dunham -
Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.
Katherine Dunham -
You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
Katherine Dunham -
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
Katherine Dunham -
When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.
Katherine Dunham
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So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.
Katherine Dunham -
I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
Katherine Dunham