I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

While I hold my own views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues

People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.