"Don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own". ---Michelle Obama

"Story has the power to imprint on our memory in a way that pretty much nothing else does" - Titus Kaphar

"When stories are left out, a section of humanity is left out and when you hear someone's story you can connect with them in a way and it makes it so much harder for you to inact violence against someone or discriminate against someone... when you know their story". - Brian Michael Smith