“How can a century or a heart turn / if nobody asks, Where have all / the Natives gone?” – Natalie Diaz, “Manhattan Is a Lenape Word”

“Know? I know I’m a writer now.” – Sherley Anne Williams, asked “when did you first know you were a writer?” by Claudia Tate

“I want you like that—enough to gnash you / into a silence made from pieces of silver.” – Natalie Diaz, “Toward the Amaranth Gates of War or Love”

“Flushed and ashamed, / the moon, put back / in the wrong sky, left.” – Diannely Antigua, “Strawberry Moon”

“…Norman Morrison, a 32-year-old pacifist…an 82-year-old woman named Alice Herz burned [themselves] to death…A remarkable change in sentiment took place.” – Howard Zinn, ‘A People’s History…’

“boy look into this lens, let me remember you / like this, carefree, acting a fool like you always do.” – Taylor Byas, “How Young Boys Survive The Ghetto: 101”

“Nba fans don’t like anything about the nba and it’s weird” – Kevin Durant, Twitter

“‘I killed my mom and pop,’ Teacup said. The crowd booed, screamed at him. They loved their mothers and fathers.” – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, ‘Chain Gang All-Stars’

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them” – Jesus Christ, ‘The Book of Matthew’