We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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