I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

We have the capacity to receive messages from the stars and the songs of the night winds.

Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.

It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

I see the dance being used as a means of express what is too deep, too fine for words.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Don't go looking for worry. It finds you on its own.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

I think Im different from a lot of singer-songwriters because some of my favorite singer-songwriters told stories. Like John Prine.

If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.

One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent

That so many people respond to me is fabulous. It is like having a kind of Alzheimer's disease, where everyone knows you and you don't know anyone.