Alex Burger

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

–James Baldwin

“Art is coming face to face with yourself.”

–Jackson Pollock

“Justice is what love looks like in public.”

–Cornel West

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

–Pablo Picasso

“To draw you must close your eyes and sing.”

–Pablo Picasso

“It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.”

–Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician

“‘Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics.”

–Eric Temple Bell, Scottish mathematician

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

–Langston Hughes

“If we opt to mute the voices of the present and those who lived long ago, then the residue of the past is bound to be inherited by our future.”

–Malika J. Stevely

“Love is easy, like is the hard part.”

–Dr. Ramani Durvasula