Speaker 1

“Wherever you decide to be, that’s where you belong.” – Ryuji Sakamoto

“Life is a journey, and every journey eventually leads to home.” – Crestfallen Saulden, Dark Souls

“You know what it’s like to think you’re alone and find out you’re not?” – Jack, Mass Effect

Speaker 2

“So, what do you say? Why not help one another on this lonely journey?” – Solaire of Astora, Dark Souls

“The process is as important as the result.” – Legion

“I’ve finally found a place where I belong.” – Makoto Niijima

Speaker 3

“Not enough for you? Well, let’s not be stingy now.” – Knight Lautrec, Dark Souls

“Is submission not preferable to extinction?” – Saren, Mass Effect

“Your dreams are much more complex than you think.” – Joker

Speaker 4

“We are amidst strange beings, in a strange land.” – Solaire of Astora, Dark Souls

“Hard to see the big picture behind a pile of corpses.” – Mordin Solus, Mass Effect

“It’s a little too late to give up now!” – Futaba Sakura

Speaker 5

“Death is equitable, accepting. We will all, one day, be welcomed by her embrace.” – Grave Warden Agdayne, Dark Souls

“Traitors are the worst kind of enemy.” – Javik, Mass Effect

“Farewell, dear father! I am no longer your subservient puppet!” – Haru Okumura

Speaker 1

"Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way." -Lori Gottlieb

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." -Joan Didion

“The more we sense that we are effectively connected, the more autonomous and separate we can be." -Sue Johnson

Speaker 2

"Every time we ask a question, we're generating a possible version of a life." -David Epston

"You do not just wake up and become the butterfly. Growth is a process." -Rupi Kaur

"Let your hardships be a part of your story, not your identity."  - Tareen Mekany

Speaker 3

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." -Edith Wharton

“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” - Sir Terry Pratchett

“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death.” - William Goldman

Speaker 4

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” - Stephen Hawking

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speaker 5

"I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals, and I try to ignore the rest." - Venus Williams

“ ...save us from succumbing to the tragic temptation of becoming cynical” - Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.” -Barack Obama

Speaker 1

“Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.” The Wizard of Oz

“All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.” Sunset Blvd.

“May the Force be with you.” Star Wars

Speaker 2

“Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night.” All About Eve, 1950

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” Apocalypse Now, 1979

“Love means never having to say you're sorry.” Love Story, 1970

Speaker 3

“I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!” Network, 1976

“You can't handle the truth!” A Few Good Men, 1992

“Houston, we have a problem.” Apollo 13, 1995

Speaker 4

“A boy's best friend is his mother.” Psycho, 1960

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” Wall Street, 1987

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” The Godfather II, 1974

Speaker 5

“Say “hello” to my little friend!” Scarface, 1983

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" Dr. Strangelove, 1964

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951

Speaker 1

"The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain." -bell hooks

“Whether we’re talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it’s where the learning is.” -bell hooks

“When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” -bell hooks

Speaker 2

“There is no change without contemplation.” -bell hooks

“Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.” -bell hooks

“The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies.” -bell hooks

Speaker 3

“I think that the most powerful tool we can have is to be clear about our intent.” -bell hooks

“Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.” -bell hooks

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.” -bell hooks

Speaker 4

“Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.” -bell hooks

"Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life.” -bell hooks

“One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.” -bell hooks

Speaker 5

“If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope.” -bell hooks

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.” -bell hooks

“When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” -bell hooks

Speaker 6

“What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.” -bell hooks

“Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.” -bell hooks

“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible.” -bell hooks