Arna Bontemps quotes

“Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.”
-- Arna Bontemps

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“How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.”
-- Arna Bontemps

Source : Arna Wendell Bontemps (1973). “The Old South: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties”, Dodd Mead

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“During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ***** followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.”

“The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.”

Source : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.234, New York Review of Books

“Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible”

“Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.114, Granta Books

“Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.”

“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

“Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.”

“My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.