I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is that it showed the brutal incomprehension of children.

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives.