Quotes on Ballerina

Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.

I was born into a family of gospel singers. My early ambitions were many. I was going to be a ballerina. I almost had that one come true until I tore a tendon, so I transferred from my toes to my throat and that's where the talent settled.

I wonder what it would be like if we all became what we wanted to be when we grew up? I mean, imagine a world filled with nothing but firemen, cowboys, nurses and ballerinas.

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.

It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role.

Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.

I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.