B. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 11:45 am

  1. 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 Nabokov

     

  2. Speaker 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 Hurston

     

  3. Speaker 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 Guin

     

  4. Speaker 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

     

  5. 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

     

  6. 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

  1. 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 Swift

     

  2. Speaker 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

     

  3. 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

     

  4. 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

     

  5. 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