I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest.
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.
So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.
Excellence is the name of the game.
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?
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.
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.
When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.
Let every man come to God in his own way.
Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!