The word "prodigy" was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.

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.

The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.

You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.

I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.

I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.

Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.

I have always seen talented person being ignored.

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

When we move beyond information toward transformation, we savor the truth of seeking to do life "under the Word" as the ancients have taught.