Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

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.

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.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

You can create a life you love. You can manifest your dreams!

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.

It is such a privilege to learn from children as they discover new worlds of possibility and give themselves full over to their dreams, inspiring a few adults along the way.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.