I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.

You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.

My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

You have to see the good in yourself before expecting someone else to see the good in you. Be aware of who you are and what you can truly be.

A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.

We don't need wings to be angelsWe don't need reasons to be rightYour love makes us all betterThat who we really areAngels and heroes at heart

Because we allow handguns. When you know someone in the crowd might be packing a rod, it can't help but rush your timing.

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

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