To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

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.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.

No matter what you do for a living you should get paid for your work, whether you're washing dishes or recording songs.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

It feels amazing to just be here and be able to share my jokes with the world. It's not so much about being a girl, it's about being a funny comic.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

The attempt is to kill the false "I", so that the real "I", the Lord, will reign. "I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," say the Hebrew scriptures.