Pointe Brandy Colbert Quotes

She knows about the music stuff, but she doesn't care. That's why I didn't tell her about my job at the studio. She doesn't want make me want to be better, like you do. She doesn't get that it's scary... to want something so much and not be sure if you're good enough.

There are different levels of trust, and I need to get back to the point where he trusts me so much he no longer has to say it aloud.

I cross my legs and lean forward with my elbows on my thighs, catch a quick glance in the mirror to evaluate how much of me has changed and how much has stayed the same. I can't see a big difference and I wonder if I've changed more on the inside or the outside over the years.

Sometimes I’d complain about the pain in my feet and he’d say I should quit if it hurt so much. I don’t think he understood that it was all worth it, sore feet and ankles included.

A veces, sentía que el estudio era más mi hogar que mi propia casa.

El ballet es una forma de arte tan universal y reconocible que la gente siempre cree que sabe de él más de lo que realmente sabe.

While one could assume that the Tribune believed it was too soon to rehash the massacre, ten years later, in June 1946, the newspaper once again ignored the subject in its “Twenty-Five Years Ago” feature. Unfortunately, the Tribune wasn’t the only publication or entity that tried to bury the truth. The Oklahoma volume of the American Guide Series mentioned it in 1941 but devoted only one paragraph to the subject. History textbooks completely ignored the event—in fact, it was not included as part of the state’s public school curricula until 2000, nearly eighty years after the massacre. This resulted in near total erasure of what had happened in Greenwood, to the point that many people who moved to Tulsa after the massacre and even some born and raised there in the ensuing years, both Black and white, often knew nothing about it.