I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

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.