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Top 25 Katherine Dunham Quotes (2025 Update)

Katherine Dunham Quote: “Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.”

1. “Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “We weren’t pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.”

2. “We weren’t pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.”

3. “You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don’t you will die inside as a person.”

4. “So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don’t you will die inside as a person.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.”

5. “When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.”

6. “I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.”

7. “I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you’re prepared.”

8. “In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you’re prepared.”

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Katherine Dunham Quote: “A creative person has to create. It doesn’t really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.”

9. “A creative person has to create. It doesn’t really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.”

10. “I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.”

11. “If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “I used to want the words ‘She tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.’”

12. “I used to want the words ‘She tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘She did it.’”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “I wasn’t concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.”

13. “I wasn’t concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.”

14. “I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.”

17. “Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.”

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Katherine Dunham Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.”

19. “We have a group of friends of the museum who try to raise, if they can, periodically something to help us. Of course, the main thing about a building like this is its upkeep. It needs central heating and it needs central air conditioning.”

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Katherine Dunham Quote: “I don’t think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.”

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

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Katherine Dunham Quote: “Don’t think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.”

22. “Don’t think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “I have actually five honorary degrees.”

23. “I have actually five honorary degrees.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “We don’t intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.”

25. “We don’t intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.”

26. “Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “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.”

27. “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.”

— Katherine Dunham

Katherine Dunham Quote: “For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.”

28. “For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.”

— Katherine Dunham

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