Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuc

For us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.

To God be the glory, great things He has done and greater things He will do.

Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?

If you don't want somwone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

The world wasn't created. It is created anew at every moment by mind.

The routine promotion of condoms through advertising has been stopped by networks who are so hypocritically priggish that they refuse to describe disease control as they promote disease transmission.

Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.