Alex Burger

“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”

–Ta-Nehisi Coates

“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”

–Muriel Rukeyser

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

–Søren Kierkegaard

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”

–James Baldwin

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

–T.S. Eliot

“I see no line between the imaginary and the real.”

–Federico Fellini

“The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure.”

–Tibetan Proverb