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.

Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

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

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 felt the naivete of a child in my dancing. I cherished that feeling. I had what I call a knowledgeable naivete, and it worked for me.

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