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‟ Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.
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‟ It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me.
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‟ I say over and over again that I am just standing on the shoulders of so many who have set this path for me, and they may not be seen or recognized or have been given an opportunity to have a voice, but I'm here representing all of those dancers. Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson, Tai Jimenez, Lauren Anderson.
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‟ I had some really incredible people who mentored me and gave me things I never got from my parents.
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‟ When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way.
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‟ Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are looking at me, and it's my responsibility for me to do whatever I can to provide these opportunities in communities to be able to educate them.
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‟ Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.
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‟ Though I have tremendous support from lots of people, there are so many others waiting to tear me down.
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‟ My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.
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‟ Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so I was going off on my own and imagining what I thought stability was. Ballet became a way for me to cope.
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