I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
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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.Katherine Dunham
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
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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 used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
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We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.
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I was in love with the West Indies and I liked the authenticity with which Trinidad was presented but the critics could have cared less.
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