The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

The body says what words cannot.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.

There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

I was a young rebel and really just wanted to be tatted with a shaved head. When I did it, I cried for a week.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

Well, I think Perl should run faster than C.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.