If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

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.

Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.

When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.

One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.

Dedicated to my brother Richard with all my heart.

Insight without action is worthless.

Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.