One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

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.

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

When you dance, your whole body dances, your skin and bones, your soul, The tips of your fingers and the roots of your hair. When you stop dancing you stop living.

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

Sol has experience, pace and physical power, which nobody else has together.

To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.

What happens to one directly happens to all indirectly.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.