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My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

- Misty Copeland
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Misty Copeland
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I traced the marley floor with my pointe shoes, and imagine myself on the stage, not as a member of the corps, but as a principal dancer. It felt right. It felt like a promise. Some day, somehow, it was going to happen for me.

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

I traced the marley floor with my pointe shoes, and imagine myself on the stage, not as a member of the corps, but as a principal dancer. It felt right. It felt like a promise. Some day, somehow, it was going to happen for me.

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

You have to be the one promoting yourself. If you don't think that you're worthy, you're never going to make it.

I grew up poor in San Pedro, California, sleeping on the floor of shady motels with my five siblings and not always sure when or where I'd get my next meal.

The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it.

It's going to take a while before we see a real shift in the students and the dancers that are going into professional companies because it takes so many years of training, but I do think that there's a new crop of dancers, of minority dancers that are entering into the ballet world.

I don't want to be anything else other than a ballerina. I love what I do outside of my work, but at the end of the day, I have to sacrifice.

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My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.

My curves became an integral part of who I am as a dancer, not something I needed to lose to become one.