- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This quote occurs as Slater introduces Jasmine, Richard’s mother, and her “big dreams” that Richard will go to college and have a career. Jasmine was never able to complete her own education, and the fact that her hopes for Richard’s relative success in life constitutes “big dreams” in East Oakland speaks to the social inequality present in Oakland society. Jasmine’s modest dream for Richard pales in comparison to Sasha’s own dream of attending a prestigious college like MIT, and this quote illustrates the institutionalized and systemic racism that holds Richard back. Oakland’s high rate of crime and poverty are significant…