Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.

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

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

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

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

Money is a never-ending problem.

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

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

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

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

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

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.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

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