In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.