We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

A creative person has to create. It doesn't really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.