If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work.

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

Money is a never-ending problem.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.

Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments.

But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise, it wouldn't work.

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

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.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.