The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar fac