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

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.

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

It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.

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

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

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.