“I mean, I’ve learned plenty about myself. Like middle school, everyone hates middle school; it's the worst part of everyone's lives. And then you come to high school, and most high schools - I talk to people who go to City College and Poly and stuff like that - there’s very much a forum where everyone wants you to follow, and if you don't follow that forum you’re bullied and harassed and stuff like that,”

“You never stop training your whole life, and there's always something you work on, and there's always something that you can do, and it's like this constant uphill battle almost, but I really enjoy it because, you know, it's so... it's just interesting to... to uncover your own body and really get in tune with it. And also, the physics of your body paired with the artistry and the grace is just so satisfying.”

"Of course, my mother wanted me to go to a Catholic high school, and I didn’t want to do that. So when I sat to take all the entrance exams, I just doodled, which of course got back to my mother because they couldn’t understand why I didn’t pass one entrance exam. So 'I don’t know mom. I don’t know.' The principal of the school, I think her name was Sister Marie Richards, I don’t remember.”

“I taught about eight years in Indiana. Didn’t like it much, but that was just where life was. Then I moved here and spent a couple years teaching in the prison system and then started teaching for Baltimore City Public Schools. I did that for three or four years and then decided I wanted to have a sort of wider reaching impact and so I decided to do administrative stuff. I got my tail handed to me by the middle school kids . . .”