I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

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.

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.

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.

In life, every moment and everything, is miraculous because life itself is a dance of a miracle.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.

Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.

Love don't love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn't love myself