"I've been doing African dance all my life."

"I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me."

"My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be."

"It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split."

"No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be."

"My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East."

"This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on."

"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."