My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet.

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.

The roughest roads often lead to the top.

We are not afraid of rivalry, for we are unique

Create from the heart.

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow.

I was just dying to get out of my twenties.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.