You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

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.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about.

I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.