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“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”
― Nghi Vo, The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“Rage always begins in my chest and spreads to my belly.
It moves through my body like a common cold.

Sometimes it creeps up my throat
and makes an appearance on my tongue.

It says things I don’t mean.
Things I eventually want to take back; Achike.

But rage reminds me that I am still human.
Still breathing. Still a living thing.

So when rage comes, I use rage wisely.
When rage comes, I use rage for change.”
― Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.

“I lift up my voices and shatter the night with my emptiness, my heartlessness. With nothing now to bind me, the world is a hunting ground.

- Scylla”
― Zachary Mason, Metamorphica

“I forgot who I was before the (space) suit,
before gravity was ripped from my vocabulary
and I mastered the art of drifting”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Way Out