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.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

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.

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