you can't talk about black Excellence without saying the name Misty Copeland you were a very introverted child but that's not how you are on stage and we could see your facial expressions when you did those sort of little moves how did ballet specifically help you break that show I spent my whole life you know feeling um that I was going to be judged or or criticized and not really feeling that I was being nurtured and when I went into the ballet studio there was something about it that made me feel that I what I was saying mattered you know through movement which spoke to me it made much more sense than me using my voice just developing these skills to be able to hold your body and have this strength and this grace and again to have have destruction in the the class setting that I never experienced at home all of these things attributed to me just maturing and growing into a woman who could stand on her own speak up for herself and have a strength and confidence