1.
Oscar Wilde, a writer and merciless wit of (mostly) the 19th century.
2.
Maya Angelou, a writer who lays her sorrows bare.
3.
Noam Chomsky, who challenged accepted ideas of linguistic theory.
4.
bell hooks, an activist and scholar who does not accept the status quo.
5.
Louise Erdrich, a Native American writer who wrote in her debut novel that right and wrong "were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin."
6.
Salvador Dalí, a painter, here answering a question about why he drove in a car filled with cauliflower.
7.
Simone de Beauvoir, a 20th century feminist theorist who rejected norms of "womanhood."
8.
Lenny Bruce, a comedian whose obscene act paved the way for comedians' freedom of speech.
9.
Aung San Suu Kyi, a Burmese activist and former political prisoner.
10.
Frida Kahlo, a painter who defies classification.
