The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.