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Pearl Primus
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“The dance is strong magic. The dance is a spirit. It turns the body to liquid steel. It makes it vibrate like a guitar. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.”
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“Dance is my medicine ... Dance is the fist with which I fight the sickening ignorance of prejudice. Instead of growing twisted like a gnarled tree inside myself, I am able to dance out my anger and frustration.”
Pearl Primus, Trinidad and Tobago-born U.S. dancer, choreaographer, anthropologist
(1919 - 1994)
Full name: Pearl Eileen Primus.