I was aware of my race from a very young age. Not in a negative way. Coming from an interracial background, I think it is important to understand who you are.

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.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

When I'm in good form there are chances that rivals will worry more about you more than you about them.

The depth of our love can be measured by our efforts. We demonstrate our love when we take that extra step.

Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream

Politicians think they have answers for everything. We artists, we only have questions.

The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product.