The Truest Expression Of A People Is

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. What I Could Not Learn Was To Think Creatively On Schedule.

No White Man Uses His Feet The Way An Indian Does. He Talks To The Earth.

But Remember That Intent Is Everything. One Does Not Just Jump, One Lifts Into The Air, One Rises. In The Same Way The Lifted Leg Of An Arabesque Becomes A Wing, And Not A Mechanical Leverage Like A Raised Trap Door. This Is The Precise Difference Between Dancing And Acrobatics. The Dancer Tries To Express Something; The Acrobat Merely Pulls, Raises, Stretches And Grinds. The Acrobat Is Lost In A Web Of Muscles The Dancer Is All But Invisible In Projected Idea.

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.

To Make Up A Dance, I Still Need, As I Needed Then, A Pot Of Tea, Walking Space, Privacy And An Idea.