We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?

It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

One you've danced, you always dance.

You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

We are all brands. Some have been discovered, some aren’t.

The truth is I love you but you reject my love. You would rather be right than loved.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

Ill put my progressive credentials up against anyones.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

I was getting ready way too late and the ball was beating me to the strike zone.?

I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Whether you respond to life or react to life determines how far you're gonna go in life.