A. Novice Impromptu Event Prompts
Round 1 9:00 -10:00 AM PST
Speaker 1
“No.” -Rosa Parks
“A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.” -John Lewis
“If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country [...] One goes to the unprotected” - James Baldwin
Speaker 2
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”- Rosa Parks
“When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don’t speak out nobody going to speak out for you.” -Fannie Lou Hamer
“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality.” -Malcolm X
Speaker 3
“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind” - Maya Angelou
“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” -Toni Morrison
“Don’t agonize, organize.” -Florynce Kennedy
Speaker 4
“Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.” - Toni Morrison
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” -W.E.B. Du Bois
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Fredrick Douglass
Speaker 5
“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.” -Malcom X
“Freedom is never given; it is won.” -A. Philip Randolph
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speaker 6
“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo — obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other”- Angela Davis
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” -Fredrick Douglass
“Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.” -Coretta Scott King
Speaker 7
“You cannot separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” -Malcolm X
“The only bad thing about burning your bridges behind you is that the world is round.” -Ruby Bridges
“I’ve learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” -Rosa Parks
Round 2 1:00-2:00 PM PST
Speaker 1
“I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.” -Betty White
“If you’re sitting on the ground in a hammock, it’s technically still hammocking.” -N.W.
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” -Audre Lorde
Speaker 2
“Men should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable” -Cher
“I raise my voice–not so that I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard.” -Malala Yousafzai
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” Frida Kahlo
Speaker 3
“I don’t mind living in a man’s world. As long as I can be a woman in it” -Marilyn Monroe
“What we do is more important than what we say or what we believe.” - bell hooks
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart
Speaker 4
“I have burst of being a lady, but it doesn’t last long” -Shelly Winters
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” -Indrina Gandhi
“I think we should stop asking people in their twenties what they ‘want to do’ and start asking them what they don’t want to do.” -Amy Poehler
Speaker 5
“I will not retire while I still have legs and my makeup box” -Bette Davis
“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued” -Aung San Suu Kyi
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” -Jane Goodall
Speaker 6
“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” -Iyanla Vanzant
“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality."- Alice Paul
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
Speaker 7
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” -Maya Angelou
“Whether we’re talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where pedegogy is, it’s wehre the learning is.” -Bell Hooks
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Finals - ASAP
Speaker 1
“I don’t have a sugar daddy. I’ve never had a sugar daddy. If I wanted a sugar daddy, yes, I could probably go out and get one because I am what? Sickening!”- Shangela
“Choices.” –Tatiana
“Unless they’re paying your bills, pay them bitches no mind.” -RuPaul
Speaker 2
“I don't get ready. I stay ready.” -Chi Chi Levaine
“And anything else was just water off a duck's back.” - Jinx Monsoon
“The biggest obstacle I’ve ever faced was my own limited perception of myself” -RuPaul
Speaker 3
“Not today, Satan. Not today.” –Bianca Del Rio
“I don’t get cute, I get drop-dead gorgeous.” -Alyssa Edwards
“I feel like you’re being sabotaged by your inner saboteur.” - RuPaul
Speaker 4
“I feel sexy in anything, even a bodybag.” –Sharon Needles
“These other girls are gonna say you have terrible makeup skills, you have no fashion sense, and you’re dumb as a rock. But they’re wrong! You don’t have terrible makeup skills.” -Alaska Thunderfuck
“We’re all born naked and the rest is drag” -RuPaulSpeaker 5
“Walk into the room purse first”- Bob the Drag Queen
"I've got all the same parts that you do, boo" - Tatiana“By the power vested in me…by me…” –RuPaul
Speaker 6
“Don’t get bitter, Just get better” -Alyssa Edwards
“You hungry, mama?” -Jimbo the Drag Clown
“Fulfillment isn’t over the rainbow. It is right here and now” -RupaulSpeaker 7
“ I would sensually walk over to the thermostat and turn up the thermostat to a sensible 74 degrees” - Jujubee
“Backrolls?” -Alyssa Edwards“If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else?” -RuPaul