One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

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

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Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

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

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

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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

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

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

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

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

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