Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

One you've danced, you always dance.

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

A good putter is a match for anyone. A bad putter is a match for no one.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.

Since unhappiness excites interest, many, in order to render themselves interesting, feign unhappiness.

Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!