My life is proof that no matter what situation you're in, as long as you have a supportive family, you can achieve anything.

Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.

I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina.

The most risky liability of your life is 'the unspoken truth'.

I used to think you were weak and just didn't fight back ... but now, honestly, I think you're actually pretty tough. It takes a hell of a lot of strength to not complain and lash out.

If the ties that bind ever do come looseIf forever ever ends for youIf that ring gets a little too tightYou might as well read me my last rights.

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

Pain is the clarion of aliveness trumpeting that you are living in the marvelous tender cause of life!

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.

I really would love to play a hannibal lector or PSYCO type character.

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

It is incident to physicians, I am afraid, beyond all other men, to mistake subsequence for consequence.