“Do not separate the hero from the collective. We are in a community of struggle.”
ANGELA DAVIS
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity."
DAVID BROOKS
"A single identity walls off empathy and the imagination."
DAVE ISAY
"Listening and capturing stories is a way of insisting that every life matters."
"We can make our lives into works of art that embody our deepest values."
KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE
PARKER PALMER
"The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from valuing our differences."
PAULO FRIERE
"What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves."