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

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.

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

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.

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

Who are you?""No one of consequence.""I must know.""Get used to disappointment.

If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.

Coaching is not something I'm passionate about. I'm passionate about coaching kids

Nature is the mirror of divinity.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

How much blood makes a 'bloodbath'?

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Right now, offline and online are coming together because of smartphones.