Alex Burger

“When you get these jobs you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else.”

–Toni Morrison

“Rules of taste enforce structures of power.”

–Susan Sontag

“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”

–Buddha

“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”

–Meister Eckhart

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

–Pema Chödrön

“Let go, or be dragged.”

–Zen Proverb

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”

–W.E.B. Du Bois

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”

–Shirley Chisholm