Speaker 1

1. "Round here, we talk just like lions but we sacrifice like lambs." - Couting Crows
2. “Fake the-fake the funk-the funk, not me, that's not the way to do it.”  - E-40
3. “Marching out of time to my own beat, now the only way I know.” - Green Day

Speaker 2

1. “My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me.” - Green day
2. “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” -Counting Crows
3. “Desperation on a red line, call it heavy metal noise.” - Sammy Hagar

Speaker 3

1. “Bust a few moves, run your fingers through your hair." - MC Hammer
2. “It’s just the beasts under your bed, in your closet, in your head.” - Metallica
3. “I don't need anything to get me through the night, except the beat that's in my heart.” - G-Eazy

Speaker 4

1. “Does it put fear in your heart that I know where I started, far from where I begun?” -Kehlani
2. “Some folks are born silver spoon in hand.” - Creedence Clearwater Revival 
3. “There is a long hair that doesn't like the short hair.” - Sly and the Family Stone

Speaker 5

1. “You who choose to lead, must follow.” - Grateful Dead
2. “Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on, go play.” - Smash Mouth
3. “It's just me, myself and I, solo ride until I die.” - G-Eazy

Speaker 6

1. “All that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mold.” - Smash Mouth
2. “But I won't waste my time tryna figure out why you playin' games.” - Keyshia Cole 
3. “We’re scanning the scene in the city tonight, we’re looking for you to start up a fight.” - Metallica

Speaker 7

1. “Some'll win, some will lose, some are born to sing the blues.” - Journey
2. “And then I saw her face, now I’m a believer.” - Smash Mouth
3. “You know I’m ready to give anything for anything I take.” - Grateful Dead

Speaker 8

1. "Love will survive somehow, somewhere.” - Journey
2. “Hey you big star, tell me when it’s over.” - Deftones
3. “It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.” - Chris Isaak

Speaker 1

1. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain
2. “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”  - John Steinbeck 
3. “The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.” - Jack London

Speaker 2

1. “Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.” - Jack London
2. “It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”- Khaled Hosseini
3. “All I ever wanted was to know what to do.” - Dave Eggers

Speaker 3

1. “But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.” - Dave Eggers
2. “People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads.” - Lemony Snicket
3. “I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point.” - Joan Didion

Speaker 4

1. “Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.” - Joan Didion
2. “The human mind has an infinite capacity for self deception.” - Gertrude Atherton
3. “We are the memories we don’t remember.” - Tommy Orange 

Speaker 5

1. “Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?” - Amy Tan
2. “Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once.” - Rebecca Solnit
3. “Everyone has a price. The trick is figuring out what it is without overpaying.” - Kristin Chen

Speaker 6

1. “All of us fixate on certain kinds of cheating, while willfully ignoring other kinds.” - Kristin Chen
2. “Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?” -Shirley Jackson
3. “None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so.” - Cornel West

Speaker 7

1. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” - Mark Twain
2. “To be alive at all is to have scars.” - John Steinbeck
3. “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.” - Khaled Hosseini

Speaker 8

1. “Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is.” - Lemony Snicket
2. “Success is a great healer.” - Gertrude Atherton
3. “I won't be what I'm not.” - Amy Tan

Speaker 1

1. “I am waiting for the discovery… and I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder.” - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2. “The best thing about the past is that it is over.” - Joanne Kyger
3. "I'll never see you again, but that's a note I tear up in my mind." - Ada Limón

Speaker 2

1. “The sky looks down upon the sea, the shadow of a passing cloud.” Ina Coolbrith
2. “The dreamer stops dreaming, doesn't know the difference between sleep and death.” - Genny Lim
3. “I am waiting to be inspired by the living and not the dead but the dead seem more alive than the living these days.” - Jack Hirshman

Speaker 3

1. “I am waiting for the day I stop being invisible and start being seen for who I am.” - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2. “We have written a scene, we have set a stage.” - Tongo Eisen-Martin
3. “One breath is all it takes for time to disappear.” - Genny Lim

Speaker 4

1. “Each failure, a glacier. Each disapproval, a bootprint.” - Janice Mirikitani
2. “We started, and no speaking, and felt the deep loneliness of incomprehension.” - William Everson
3. “We have built the great cities; now there is no escape.” - Robinson Jeffers

Speaker 5

1. “Desire is full of endless distances.” Robert Hass
2. “Holding up the sky is dangerous business, but someone has to.” - Ayodele Nzinga
3. “When a mask breaks in half, mind which way the eyes go.” - Tongo Eisen-Martin

Speaker 6

1. “We were never what they wanted but we were bold.” - Lorna Dee Cervantes
2. “This poet embracing the void.” - Robert Duncan
3. “You can't dream another, because it's all your story.” - Ayodele Nzinga

Speaker 7

1. “One breath is all it takes for a pupa to burst free.” - Genny Lim
2. “No one listens to poetry.” - Jack Spicer
3. “Naked in the thorny woods, blissful fools.” - Robert Duncan

Speaker 8

1. “Going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere.” - Gary Soto
2. “Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.” - Czeslaw Milosz
3. “This ocean, humiliating in its disguises, tougher than anything.” - Jack Spicer