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.

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?

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.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

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.

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

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