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.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

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.

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance