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because some of the movements of the dance are also the same as the poses inside the magazine.
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Work, damn it!
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[ Hip-hop music plays ]
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The name is a statement in itself.
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I mean, you really wouldn't go to a ball to do the "mademoiselle."
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No way.
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Emcee:
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Now I want all y'all up on the floor!
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New York and Jersey!
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Wake up!
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Come on!
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Whoo!
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Brother.
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This is Saint Laurent.
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Adonis.
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Overness.
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Bobby lamay.
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Whoo, I wish I knew how to do that.
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Mm-mm-mmm.
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Ouch!
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Work!
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Work!
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Work!
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Work!
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Work!
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the dance takes from the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.
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It also takes from some forms of gymnastics.
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They both strive for perfect lines in the body, awkward positions, but it goes one step further.
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It's starting to make a name for itself, but I want it to be known worldwide, and I want to be on top of it when it hits.
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I want to take voguing not to just Paris is burning, but I want to take it to the real Paris and make the real Paris burn.
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That's what I want to do, and not just there, but to other countries as well.
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My house name is Ninja, and I would really like to take my whole house and go to Japan...
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And really let loose and do it and have them accept it there.
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I want to be a big star.
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Uh, known, generally, every corner of the world.
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You know, maybe as a choreographer, a famous dancer, a singer, or all of them.
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What the balls has to do with that, as far as the dance field, is maybe perfecting my craft a little better, to learn new things, new ideas, and bring them to the real world.
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It's been really unbelievable, my life.
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If I was to die today or tomorrow,
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I could not say I've not had an exciting life.
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I have had a fabu...
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and I'm not rich, mind you.
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Just imagine if I had the dollars.
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Ooh, it'd be too much for the world.
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If I had the riches and I had the fame, trust me, all of y'all in here would be rich...
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'Cause I'm very generous.
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You know, I can't...
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I wouldn't enjoy having a whole lot of money, like being a millionaire and hoarding it, you know?
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I'd share it with all my loved ones.
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You know, I'd want them to have it, too.
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We'd all have to go.
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I'd want to charter a plane, and we all fly to Paris.
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[ Orchestral music plays ]
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O-p-u-l-e-n-c-e... opulence.
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[ Laughter ]
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You own everything.
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Everything is yours.
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This is white America.
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Any other nationality that is not of the white set knows this and accepts this till the day they die.
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That is everybody's dream and ambition as a minority... to live and look as well as a white person.
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It is pictured as being in America.
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Every media you have, from TV to magazines to movies to films...
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I mean, the biggest thing that minority watches is what?
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"Dynasty" and "the Colbys."
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Um, "all my children," the soap operas.
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Everybody have a million-dollar bracket.
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When they showing you a commercial from honey grahams to crest or lestoil or pine-sol, everybody's in their own home.
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The little kids for fisher-price toys, they're not in no concrete playground.
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They're riding around the lawn.
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The pool is in the back.
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This is white America.
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And when it comes to the minorities, especially black...
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We, as a people for the past 400 years, is the greatest example of behavior modification in the history of civilization.
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We have had everything taken away from us, and yet we have all learned how to survive.
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That is why, in the ballroom circuit, it is so obvious that if you have captured the great white way of living...
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Or looking...
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Or dressing or speaking...
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You is a marvel.
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I think if I could just be on TV or film or anything,
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I'd do that instead of the money.
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Of course, I do want the money because I want the luxury that goes with it.
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But...
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I want to be wealthy.
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If not wealthy, content, comfortable...
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You know?
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I want to be somebody.
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I mean, I am somebody.
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I just want to be a rich somebody. [ Laughs ]
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Emcee:
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You ain't gonna tell me, you see her in the supermarket, and you're gonna say, "that's a hag."
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Women don't go out of their way because they are women.
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I went out my way because I wasn't, and I felt that I wanted to be the best I can be.
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The Virginia slims girl is here.
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This was not a game for me or fun.
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This is something that I want to live.
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She's here in person.
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Hopefully, God willing, by 1988, I fully hope to become a full-fledged woman of the United States.
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You look at all these models on the wall.
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Every one of them are gorgeous.
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Every one of them are beautiful.
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