I think, as a child, there weren't dreams. I can't recall as a child having some ultimate dream and thinking that it was possible.

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.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Be the best person you can be for yourself and for everyone around you.

People who never get carried away should be.

I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.

Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul.

There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down.

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.

The fork is your most powerful tool to change your health and the planet; food is the most powerful medicine to heal chronic illness.

It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.

Imagination is a form of seeing