Sufjan Stevens Quotes

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

All people from small islands dance funny.

Show me how you dance and I will know where you are from.

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.

I don't like being choreographed to a T. I like to take steps and make them my own.

I try as much as I can to bring out my own British flavor.

Outside' was more of a personal project. This, the 'African Giant', is more of an African project.

Fashion appeals to everyone... Everyone gets into it.

Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

Just find what works for you, what style suits you best, and just be confident enough to rock it.

I come from South America and it's part of our culture to speak out. It's a lot healthier.

Cordae is like my government name. I was like, just be myself. What's a better name than the name my mom gave me, or my pops gave me?

My personal style statement is to be comfortable because if you are comfortable you are confident.

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

Funk is part of who I am.

Your space, when done correctly, is the purest extension of yourself!

Growing up, I was definitely a tomboy, an overall-and-Converse type of girl, and I still am, but for events, I love dressing up.

Writing from life is how I feel most comfortable.

Food is a reflection of who you are as a person.

Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a story about who he was. Expressing yourself is big business.

For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

somebody/ anybody sing a black girl's song bring her out to know herself to know you but sing her rhythms carin/ struggle/ hard times sing her song of life she's been dead so long closed in silence so long she doesn't know the sound of her own voice her infinite beauty she's half-notes scattered without rhythm/ no tune sing her sighs sing the song of her possibilities sing a righteous gospel let her be born let her be born & handled warmly.