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“People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.”
― Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

“creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different, more, less my whole life. thank spirit, my wisdom is deeper than my shame, and i listened to who i was. i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to nothing, know that who we are, and what we do is life. when we create, we are creating the world. remember this, and commit.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“If abandoned rage asks, Who should answer for this?/
Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.”
― Claudia Rankine, The End of the Alphabet: Poems

“I had one more thing to add to my expanding world.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.”
― Ben Okri