Arthur Mitchell Quotes
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, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world.
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A man will be generally very old and feeble before he forgets how much money he has in the funds.
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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, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
