Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way

I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?

I felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.