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 believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable. Ever since I was a child I have believed that my life has been guided.

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.

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.

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.

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

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