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.

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.

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 think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

I knew there was something peculiar about you, " she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment." I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar.

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis, I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail.

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

A number of individuals tried to make my homosexuality a topic of debate. I admittedly found that rather upsetting.

I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.