Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.