God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.

One dance had made me the most famous colored woman in the world.

I love performing. I shall perform until the day I die.