Censorship is the height of vanity.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The body says what words cannot.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love though over your pride!

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.

It takes 21 days to develop a habit.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

I had a little more freedom when I started sampling because you could actually do what you wanted to do.