Judith Jamison Quotes

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Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Judith Jamison

Inspirational, Women, Heart

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

Judith Jamison

Believe, Spirit, Manifestation

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Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

Judith Jamison

Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

Judith Jamison

Beautiful, Husband, Real

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Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

Judith Jamison

Dance, Aspiration, Never Ending

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

Judith Jamison

Silence, Dancer, Looks

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.

Judith Jamison

Breathing, Dancing

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

Judith Jamison

Firsts, Studios, Ifs

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.

Judith Jamison

Light, People, Negativity

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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One you've danced, you always dance.

Judith Jamison

Dance

Essence, December 1988.

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I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message.

Judith Jamison

Dance, Thinking, White

womenSports Magazine, September 1975.

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We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

Judith Jamison

Talking, Racism, African American

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Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way

Judith Jamison

Way, Deny

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I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

Judith Jamison

Fall, Opposites, Soul

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

Judith Jamison

Want, Humans, Persons

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People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Judith Jamison

Dance, Giving, People

womenSports magazine, September 1975.

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It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.

Judith Jamison

Children, Pride, Self Worth

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Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

Judith Jamison

People, Giving, Dancing

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Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

Judith Jamison

Dance, Dancer, Threshold

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I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.

Judith Jamison

Children, Believe, World

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

Judith Jamison

Dancer, Black, World

"I just wanted to be the best in the world" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2001.

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I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

Judith Jamison

Sacrifice, Thinking, Dancer

"Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.

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Excellence is the name of the game.

Judith Jamison

Games, Names, African American

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The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

Judith Jamison

Moving, Dark, Light

Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

Judith Jamison

Competition, Trying, Being The Best

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Born: May 10, 1943
Occupation: Dancer
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