I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

When people come and see my show, I try to infuse into them that they can walk away feeling like their lives are a victory.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

I don't dance like I used to, but I'm moving and I'll be doing my form of dance at Town Hall... I hit my limitations but I learn to work with what I've got.

Everyone I've worked with has been good. You learn from the good, what's good, and you learn from the bad what not to do.

Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, its a quiet thing. At least for me it was.