Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

The one unbreakable rule of couples dancing is that the partners must move inter dependently, as a unit.

The circle, or ring, dance was seen as an earthly counterpart of the heavenly dance of the angels, which was itself a celebration of the resurrection.

The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.

By dancing in a socially approved way with their peers, individiuals proclaim their allegiance to society as a whole.

To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

A physician who treated mental cases says that he based his diagnosis on the way his patients moved: "The body never lies" was his maxim.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

The basic vehicle of the dance is the human body. When and how people dance is determined by their attitudes towards their body.

When a leader has an attitude of gratitude, it can create great differences in the lives of others.

...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

I've never thrown out a TV set out of some hotel's window, but I have thrown a microwave out of one 'coz it was cooler.

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self.

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

As a brown artist, I have mixed feelings about my relationship to art and my "responsibilities" post-Trump.