Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way

Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn't work for everybody. It's the lifestyle, it's the stamina, it's the love, it's the dedication, it's the commitment, it's all those words.

One you've danced, you always dance.

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.

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

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.

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?

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

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.