"I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?"
Henry Louis Gates
Delivered: December 11, 2020
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Delivered: June 15, 2023
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
Kurt Vonnegut
Delivered: December 1, 2023
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Delivered: March 29, 2024
"Space is the breath of art."
Frank Lloyd Wright
Delivered: June 5, 2023