What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes 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.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible