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

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?

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.

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?

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.

Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.