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.

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

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.

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

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

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

Excellence is the name of the game.