The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer

by Janelle Monáe

Where the notes of memory and time make a chord, do we hear the answers to the whys of this world, or do we hear the tones that tell us the world we see is not the only one—that the escapes we

yearned for might not exist in this one line of time, in this single, part-seen world? Beyond time and memory—where the computer cannot reach—is dreaming.

how every inch of life’s purpose was to find love, freedom, and your people. To embrace your own weirdness and other folks’ wildness.

Mama. Such a small word for the whole world.