Tell the viewer something that they need to know.
I want to share the ballet world with everyone.
Success is not easy and I think everyone should know that hard work and perseverance and being open to giving back are so much more powerful than stepping all over people to get to the top.
You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things. stay strong and find motivation
The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.
You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.
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.
I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.
Looking, Walking, Being, I look and look. Looking's a way of being: one becomes, sometimes, a pair of eyes walking. Walking wherever looking takes one. The eyes dig and burrow into the world. They touch, fanfare, howl, madrigal, clamor. World and the past of it, not only visible present, solid and shadow that looks at one looking. And language? Rhythms of echo and interruption? That's a way of breathing. breathing to sustain looking, walking and looking, through the world, in it.
I want to give the evidence in a way that is convincing, but I don't want to cheat.