Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

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 choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

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

Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.

One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.

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