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.

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.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

Farewell my friends, I go to glory.