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.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

If they call you crazy, you are doing something right

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

it's not until my third cup of coffee that I am fully awake and willing to face the consequences of that condition.

Just as there's some technologies that jeopardize revenue for traditional products, there are also technologies that can significantly lower costs.

Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.