My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Afric….

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appala….

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it..

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it..

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were..

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me..

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for s….

There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that ….

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do..

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap….

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman..

Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I….

For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this f….

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know..

A creative person has to #‎ create ..

Frequently producers have partners that they never let the public know about..

I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancin….

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreogr….

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some o….