Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.

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.

Carpe Diem, just remember that we're partying on the Titanic.

She’d die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along.

I was just cleaning up my own mess, Baz. Like, no one would call you a hero for cleaning up your own vomit.

So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

Institutions do all the things that are supposed to be bad. They impede personal exploration. They enforce conformity. But they often save us from our weaknesses and give meaning to life.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

I'm a baseball player. Not being able to play baseball certainly was a lonely thing.

God is using your present circumstances to make you more useful for later roles in His unfolding story.

Be not miserable about what may happen tomorrow. The same everlasting Father, who cares for you today, will care for you tomorrow.