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

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

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've danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can't do that.

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

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?

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.