I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

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.

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

those who have loved are those that have found God

Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill.As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.

If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

Writing is very different to having your photo taken. You are exposing yourself more, not physically but emotionally.

I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.