Alvin Ailey

Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.

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

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.