About Quote by Jake Epstein

Dance helped me a lot. I had a lot of nightmares.

— Michaela DePrince

I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me…

— Kate Hudson

I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them.

— Ntozake Shange

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was…

— Johnny Cash

Even in the early stages of my career I've had to dance with principal dancers. I could have easily freaked out and got nervous,…

— Francesca Hayward

Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the…

— Judith Jamison

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the…

— Judith Jamison

I used to watch all the dancers from the dance theater of Harlem when i was younger and i wanted to be exactly like…

— Michaela DePrince

I always knew I wanted to dance and when I was eight, I started ballet lessons at a church hall. They all wore pink…

— Arlene Phillips

As a child I didn't understand why there were no black students in dance schools: classmates and teachers made me feel different and tried…

— Michaela DePrince

I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional…

— Kate Levering

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

— Misty Copeland