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.

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

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

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'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.

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