B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 - 11:45 am
Speaker 1
The root of oppression is the loss of memory. -Paula Gunn Allen
Off-camera lives are unverifiable. -Don DeLillo
The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea. - Vladimir NabokovSpeaker 2
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. -Gwendolyn Brooks
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. – Toni Morrison
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. -Zora Neale HurstonSpeaker 3
Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. ― James Baldwin
In nonsense is strength. -Kurt Vonnegut
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow. - Ursula K Le GuinSpeaker 4
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. -William S. Burroughs
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. -Edith Wharton
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday -Pearl S. Buck
Speaker 5
Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. – Joyce Carol Oats
Language is a virus from outer space. - William S. Burroughs
Mothers are all slightly insane. - JD Salinger
Speaker 6
To oppose something is to maintain it. - Ursula K Le Guin
Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory. -Don DeLillo
In love there are two things - bodies and words. – Joyce Carol Oats
Round 2 - 1:45 pm
Speaker 1
It can't be said I'm an early bird. It's ten o'clock before I say a word. - Hozier
I found my mind, I'm feelin' sane It's been a while, but I'm finding my faith - Benson Boone
Everything comes out teenage petulance - Taylor SwiftSpeaker 2
I'm fallin' apart right in front of you, can't you see? I lose control - Tedy Swims
There's a heatwave coming at us. Too hot to think straight. Too cold to panic - Beyonce
I'm queen of sand castles he destroys - Taylor Swift
Speaker 3
That morning coffee, brewed it for ya. One touch and I brand newed it for ya. - Sabrina Carpenter
Me and my truth, we sit in silence - Ariana Grande
All the pieces of me shattered as the crowd was chanting, "More" - Taylor Swift
Speaker 4
So I thought that if I piled something good on all my bad. That I could cancel out the darkness I inherited from dad. - Noah Kahan
Stuck in this paradigm. Don't believe in paradise. -SZA
A greater woman stays cool, But I howl like a wolf at the moon - Taylor Swift
Speaker 5
You're like concrete feet in the summer heat. - Zach Bryan
You said you're scared, I'll let you down. Just stick around and you'll find out. - Artemas
I was tame I was gentle till the circus life made me mean - Taylor Swift