Hand of Fatima
Tunisian Woman
Radhiya's Middle Eastern & North African Dance, Inc.
"Quotes"  ~ Food for Thought
Watch your thoughts - they become words.
Watch your words - they become actions.
Watch your actions - they become habits.
Watch your habits - they become your character.
Watch your character - it becomes your destiny.
(bathroom in Trader Joe's)


It's not what you've got - it's what you do with what you've got.
~Mae West

The dance is a showing rather than a showing off,
showing of the physical self in the best setting of all,
an atmosphere of encouragement and appreciation.
~Wendy Buonaventura

The learning never stops.
To teach is to learn is a Japanese Proverb which reminds us
to see every time we teach something as a chance to learn
it all again from scratch ourselves.
~Despina




Dance as if no one were watching,
sing as if no one were listing,
and live everyday as if it were to be your last.
~Irish Proverb

I get up.  I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.  ~Hillel


The dance instills in you something that sets you apart.
Something heroic and remote.
~Dagas

The mediocre teacher tells,
the good teacher explains,
the superior teacher demonstrates,
the great teacher inspires.
~William Arthur Ward



Egyptian dancers glisten.
Turkish dancers sweat.
~

To understand the culture, study the dance.
To understand the dance, study the people.
~Chuck Davis, Artistic Director,
African American Dance Ensemble


A single bracelet does not jingle.
~Congolese proverb


They who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.
~

Repetition is the mother of knowledge.
~S B Fuller

Music is the healing force of he universe.
~Sun Ra


All the pleasure I have had, I owe to my sewing!
~Willi Smith, Fashion Designer


Everything that is was once Imagined!
~Ted Joans

To dance is to be out of yourself and in yourself a the same time.  
Those whom you encompass need only to look.....because they are
inside of you when you dance.
~Eva Cernik