It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

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.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

Today's sufferings will be the pleasure of future success.

In America we have an idolatry called the “adulation of youth.” Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.

Human beings wear clothing and walk upright, but when you take that away, we're nothing but monkeys.

I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

I never turned down a mother role.

The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

I didn't want my kids having to pass through an airport named after their father.