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Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
“Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world when we are gone.”
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

N.K. Jemisin
“In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

M.T. Anderson
“The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.”
M.T. Anderson, Feed

N.K. Jemisin
“For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.”
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

Margaret Atwood
“I even spent a certain amount of time worrying about the Spiritualist doctrines: If The Other Side was so wonderful, why did the spirits devote most of their messages to warnings? Instead of telling their loved ones to avoid slippery stairs and unsafe cars and starchy foods, they should have been luring them over cliffs and bridges and into lakes, spurring them on to greater feats of intemperance and gluttony, in order to hasten their passage to the brighter shore.”
Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle

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