“What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?”

- Mary Oliver 

“Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.”

- Chadwick Boseman as King T’Challa, “Black Panther”

“It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime.

What better place than here, what better time than now?”

- Rage Against the Machine, “Guerilla Radio”

“Each second we live is a new and unique moment in the universe, a moment that never was before and never will be again. And what do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four and that Paris in the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them, ‘Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you.’

We all must work to make a world worthy of its children…”

-       Pablo Casals

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

– The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again” 

Terms like zero-tolerance and lock-down
Aging out, if you ask me, does not sound like education
But I suppose that's a 'cause and effect'
When the city spends more on incarceration. 

- J-Live, “Brooklyn Public, Part 1”

“All I got is dreams, nobody else believes,

nobody else can see, nobody else but me.”

- Jay-Z, “History”

“Love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort,

and keep on learning.”

– Carol Dweck

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”

- Anais Nin

“Don’t it always seem to go,

that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”

-Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”