“…if I were a superhero, I'd be Delayed Reaction Girl.”

“My middle child was a senior this year. So we had to deal with the no prom, no end of senior year activities, no graduation, et cetera. And that really hit her hard.”

“I don't know if it wasn't for quarantine, if we would have had the collective energy and mental space to do the work that I've seen so many people doing.”

“I can't right any wrongs right now. I don't have the power of a paycheck. I don't have the power of a theatre right now. So I've been trying to better myself and do some learning and just let everyone else talk because the young ones especially already know what should happen and how they feel about it. And I really admire that.”

“It's been a pretty good day so far. I played with my bunnies a lot. I talked to my friends. It's a really pretty day outside, which is always nice.”

“A lot of people couldn’t go out and protest because they're like, "I'm worried about losing my job. We're worried about all these things." And we're kind of at a point where so many people have so little left to lose.”

“You know what I was robbed of? All of my birthing classes and most of my appointments during seven, eight months. They cut them down to tele-visits because I wasn't having a complicated pregnancy. It was so difficult because I was in so much discomfort and couldn't go to the doctor because it wasn't necessary.”

“My mom's worried because I'm always posting depressing stuff, but I'm like, "No, no, no. This is how I'm coping. I'm going to be fine. I know, Mom, you're reading this and it looks bad, but I know me and I'll be fine in a few days, maybe a few hours." But right now I'm just over everything and I hate everyone.”

“For a long time, I wasn't able to see a light at the end of the tunnel and because of that I had a really hard time finding motivation to do anything creative.”

“I'll say this and I think that if you are a white person and you are having these tough conversations without the inclusion of a person of color, then you are at risk of going back to the same old, same old. Because as a white person, you can't understand and a black person can help you to have an idea of what it's like.”

“I'm all right. I'm okay. I'm great. I'm doing fine. I had some health issues last year and they seem to be smoothing themselves out, so I'm doing fine.”

“It just seems like the world is just ready to explode, and I hate watching it right now.”

“'Ive been really trying to stay on my grind trying to get a job. As of this week, I'm up to four different places that have been like, ‘Yeah, I think we're going to hire you.’And then at the very last minute have had to kind of backtrack.”

“On Mother's Day, we sat in the front lawn in camping chairs. And then my dad's birthday was Memorial Day and same thing, I was like, ‘I'm not going to hug you.’ And my mom was like, ‘Really?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I'm sorry.’“

“I work at two funeral homes. One is for Jewish community and one is for other than Jewish community. And we have been busy.”

“…when you're stuck in the house for so long, you can't really ignore how you feel.”

“There are people that prior to me have gotten spit on and hung on and died, just to have a right and have access to resources, and be able to do what I enjoy doing.”

“I made those masks for my friend at the Puppet Center and she posted it. Then all of a sudden people were like, "Vito, we need masks!" and I got over a hundred masks ordered within three days.”

“I don't want to work on writing at all.”

“…my plastic putting green that now occupies the floor of my apartment, which was my smartest quarantine purchase.”