Speaker 1

"No night is so long that it does not end with dawn."

English Translation of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Goo-gee Thee- ongo) (Kenyan Writer)

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight. 

Lady Bess Truman (US Former First Lady)

"Oh yes, the past can hurt, but the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.       

Rafiki, (The Lion King)

Speaker 2

It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.

• Byron Katie (American Writer)

Who gon' check me, boo?

      -     Shereé Whitfield (Real Housewives of Atlanta)

"Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows." 

     -     Native American Proverb

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

      -     Winnie the Pooh (The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh)

2. "I change myself, I change the world." 

• Gloria Anzaldúa (Chicana Writer)

3. “When the baker is bad, he blames the flour!”

• English Translation from Film: Subida al Cielo

Speaker 4

1. "The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it." 

•  Kalpana Chawla (First woman of Indian origin in space)

2. Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin never died. They simply became music."

• Dr. Robert Ford (Westworld)

3. You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are. 

• Melania Trump (First Lady)

Speaker 5

1. "Eureka!" 

• (Archimedes) Greek mathematician and physicist

2. Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining. 

• Judy Sheindlin (Judge)

3. "Many small people, in small places, doing small things, can change the world."

• Eduardo Galeano (Uruguayan Writer)

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." 

• Eleanor Roosevelt (Former First Lady)

2. "Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice."

•  English Translation from Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Somalia Activist)

3. "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.”

• Andy Bernard (The Office)

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." 

• Amelia Earhart (Pilot)

2. “See, when you do clownery, the clown comes back to bite” 

• Mo'Nique (Comedian)

3. "Sucking at something is the first step at being sorta good at something."

• Jake the Dog (Adventure Time)

Speaker 2

1. "Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid."  

• Lady Bird Johnson (Former First Lady)

2. "Laughter is a bridge—it connects us, heals us, and reminds us of our shared humanity." -    

• Maysoon Zayid (Comedian and activist)

3. "You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

• Rumi (Persian poet)

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. We have to become the men we wanted to marry. 

• Gloria Steinem (American journalist and social activist)

2. "The most radical thing we can do is love each other fiercely in a world that tries to tear us apart."

• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Writer and poet)

3. "We are guests on Earth, not its owners." 

• English Translation from Wang Ping (Poet)

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. "True success comes from lifting others as we climb." 

• Haben Girma (Deafblind lawyer and advocate)

2. "Get busy living, or get busy dying." 

• Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption) 

3. "Be softer with you. You are a breathing thing, a memory to someone, a home to a life."

• Nayyirah Waheed (Poet)

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. “I’m an acquired taste. You don’t like me? Acquire some taste.” 

• Ramona Singer (Real Housewives of New York

2. "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." 

• Native American Proverb

3. "True connection comes when we honor both the beauty and the struggle in our lives and the lives of others." 

• Naomi Ortiz (Writer, poet, and artist)

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. "Every word we speak carries the weight of our ancestors and the hope of our descendants." 

• Aurora Levins Morales (Poet and historian)

2. "I’m not lazy; I’m just in energy-saving mode."

• Hari Kondabolu (comedian) 

3. "Strong people don’t need strong leaders." 

• Ella Baker (Civil rights leader)

Speaker 1

1. "One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." 

• Marie Curie (Nobel Prize winner)

2. "I don’t know how many years I got left on this Earth, so I’m gonna get real weird with it."

• Frank Reynolds (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)

3. "There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

• Zora Neale Hurston (Writer and anthropologist)

Speaker 2

1. "Remember that you are all people and that all people are you."

• Joy Harjo (Muscogee poet)

2. "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." 

• Sir Edmund Hillary (First to summit Mount Everest)

3. "You are the medicine."

• Indigenous Maya Proverb

Speaker 3

1. "Be still and the earth will speak to you."

• Navajo Proverb

2. "We were never meant to survive, but we do."

• Joy Harjo (member of the Mvskoke Nation)

3. "The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept." 

• George Carlin (comedian):

Speaker 4

1. "You don’t choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be."

• Grace Lee Boggs (Asian-American activist and author)

2. "Dreams are not limited by circumstance. They’re fueled by the courage to keep going."

• Ola Ojewumi (Activist)

3.  "Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched." 

• Mindy Kaling (actress/producer):

Speaker 5

1. "At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before." 

• Warsan Shire (Somali-British poet)

2. Life’s too short to skip dessert. Also too short for kale." 

• Lilly Singh  (YouTuber and television host)

3. "Losing people is a part of life, but that doesn't mean you stop letting them in."

• Batman (The Lego Movie)

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. "Radical simply means ‘grasping things at the root’—but sometimes the root is too far down, so bring snacks." 

• Angela Y. Davis (Scholar and activist)

2. My crown is in my heart, not on my head." 

• Shonda Rhimes

3. "I paint flowers so they will not die." 

• Frida Kahlo

Speaker 1

1. "Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination." 

• Mae Jemison (Astronaut): 

2. "Listen more than you talk, especially to people you disagree with." 

• Yamiche Alcindor (journalist): 

3. The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. 

• Lady Bird Johnson (US Former First Lady)

Speaker 2

1. "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." 

• Dorothy Parker (writer):

2. “Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.” 

• Black Elk (author)

3. “People come for me all the time. They just don’t find me.” 

• Karen Huger (Real Housewives of Atlanta)

Speaker 3

1. "You can’t brace yourself for something you don’t know is coming." 

• David Sedaris (author)

2. "You see, I had a road map of the stars in my veins." 

• Joy Harjo (Muscogee poet): 

3. "Social anxiety is just conspiracy theories about yourself." 

• Aparna Nancherla (comedian):

Speaker 4

1. "Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." 

• Erma Bombeck (comedian) 

2. "The journey matters as much as the destination." 

• Kalpana Chawla (Indian-American astronaut)

3. "Our stories are a map of who we are."

• Jacqueline Keeler (Dakota/Navajo writer)

Speaker 5

1. "Some people wear their crazy like a badge of honor. I prefer mine like an invisible cloak."

• Jessica Williams (comedian)

2. "Silence can be the loudest scream."

• Malathi de Alwis (Sri Lankan anthropologist)

3. "You are the result of the love of thousands."

• Linda Hogan (Chickasaw poet)

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. "Your joy is only as deep as your sorrow has carved out" 

• Khalil Gibran (Ka - leel     Jih-Brawn)

2. "One day I will be an ancestor, and I want my descendants to know I tried my best." 

• Autumn Peltier (water activist)

3. "If at first, you don’t succeed, redefine success."

• Franchesca Ramsey (comedian)