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

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Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham, born on June 22, 1909, was an influential dancer, choreographer, actress, and scholar. Renowned for her unique African-Caribbean dance style, she had a profound impact on the development of modern dance. more

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“My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.”

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“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.”

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“I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.”

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“I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.”

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“Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.”

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“Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.”

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“I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.”

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“In fact, I have never met anyone who didn't like Gargoyles.”

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“My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.”

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