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?

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.

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.

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

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.

Excellence is the name of the game.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.