I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.