Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. "The best mind altering drug is the truth” Lily Tomlin

2. “A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.”  Jane Fonda

3. “I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb, and I know I’m not blonde” Dolly Parton

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. “The road to success is always under construction.” Lily Tomlin

2. “When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.”  Jane Fonda

3. “You don’t have to look like everybody else. You don’t have to be a raving beauty to be special and to be beautiful.” Dolly Parton

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. “Looking young? I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup," Dolly Parton

2. “It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” Jane Fonda

3. “We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.” Lily Tomlin

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. “Everybody’s life is a soap opera. Everybody’s life is a country western song," Dolly Parton

2. “If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.” Jane Fonda

3. “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.” Lily Tomlin

Speaker 5

1. “We had two rooms and running water, if you were willing to run to get it," Dolly Parton

2. “I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else”.  Jane Fonda

3. “I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” Lily Tomlin

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. “Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.” Lily Tomlin

2. “A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.” Jane Fonda

3. "A rhinestone shines just as good as a diamond.” Dolly Parton

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose,” Dolly Parton

2. “To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.”  Jane Fonda

3. “For fast-acting relief try slowing down.” Lily Tomlin

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” — Dr. Mae Jemison

2. “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.” — Desmond Tutu

3. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. “The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” — W.E.B. Du Bois

2. “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” — Coretta Scott King

3. “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” — Thurgood Marshall

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.” —Barack Obama

2. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” — Rosa Parks

3. “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.  I rise. I rise. I rise.” — Maya Angelou

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. “When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” — Michelle Obama

2. “Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another’s uniqueness.” — Ola Joseph

3. “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” — Nelson Mandela

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” — Shirley Chisholm

2. “You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.” — Malcolm X

3. “The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” — Frederick Douglass

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. “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

2. “We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.” — Vernon Jordan

3. “I had no idea that history was being made.  I was just tired of giving up.” — Rosa Parks

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

2. “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” — Nina Simone

3. “In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” — Booker T. Washington

Speaker 1

Speaker 1

1. I change myself, I change the world.” - Gloria Anzaldua

2. “They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't, we haven't.”- Gloria Anzaldúa

3. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.”- Gloria Anzaldúa

Speaker 2

Speaker 2

1. I am mad - but I choose this madness.- Gloria Anzaldua

2. Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength; may we dance in the face of our fears. - Gloria Anzaldúa

3. Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element. - Gloria Anzaldúa

Speaker 3

Speaker 3

1. I meet you with my heart in my hand.- Gloria Anzaldúa

2. As a lesbian I have no face, my own people disclaim me; but I am all races because there is the queer of me in all races.”- Gloria Anzaldúa

3.  Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.” -Gloria Anzaldua

Speaker 4

Speaker 4

1. Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks. - Gloria Anzaldúa

2. To survive the Borderlands you must live without boundaries; be a crossroads. -Gloria Anzaldúa

3. I am an act of kneading, of uniting and joining that not only has produced both a creature of darkness and a creature of light, but also a creature that questions the definitions of light and dark ”- Gloria Anzaldúa

Speaker 5

Speaker 5

1. We need you to own the fact that you looked upon us as less than human. -Gloria Anzaldúa

2. A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared. –Gloria Anzaldúa

3. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.”- Gloria Anzaldúa

Speaker 6

Speaker 6

1. I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice. - Gloria Anzaldúa

2. This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is. And will be again.”- Gloria Anzaldúa

3. In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

-Gloria Anzaldúa

Speaker 7

Speaker 7

1. The hunger to create is as substantial as fingers and hand. -Gloria Anzaldúa

2. I will have my serpent’s tongue - my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

3. I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails...- Gloria Anzaldúa

Speaker 8

Speaker 8

1. That’s what writing is for me, an endless cycle of making it worse, making it better, but always making meaning out of the experience. -Gloria Anzaldúa

2. Words are blades of grass pushing past the obstacles, sprouting on the page. - Gloria Anzaldúa

3. The hunger to create is as substantial as fingers and hand. - Gloria Anzaldúa