EBUKA DON SYLVA, AUTHOR    Live Life Everyday Like It’s Your Best Day, Because It Is And The World Would Want To Hear About It Some Day. ~ Ebuka Don Sylva

MICHAEL-XAVIER AWOGBEMI, AUTHOR One Often Encounters His Destiny On The Road He Takes To Avoid It. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

OLOLADE AKINLABI, AUTHOR Life Is A Reincarnated Story, I Am Writing Mine On Papers, Find A Space To Write Yours, Too. ~ Ololade Akinlabi

PATTY HUTCHISON, AUTHOR If You’re Walking Down The Right Path And You’re Willing To Keep On Walking, Eventually You’ll Make Progress. ~ Barak Obama

ROOSEVELT EDWARDS, AUTHOR You Can Only Become Truly Accomplished At Something You Love. ~Maya Angelou

TIFFANY LAFLEUR, AUTHOR Let Your Dreams Be Bigger Than Your Fears, And Your Actions Louder Than Your Words. ~ Unknown

TRACEY COBB, AUTHOR Never Go Backward. Always Be Movin', Movin' Forward. Life Is In Front Of Me, Not Behind. Some Sing, Some Cry Ntozake Shange & Ifa ~Bayeza

ALEXANDRIA BROWN, EDITOR And By The Way, Everything In Life Is Writable About If You Have The Outgoing Guts To Do It, And The Imagination To Improvise. The Worst Enemy To Creativity Is Self-Doubt. ~ Sylvia Plath 

ANTHONY AZEKWOH, AUTHOR/ARTIST Until The Lions Have Their Own Historians, The History Of The Hunt Will Always Glorify The Hunter. ~ Chinua Achebe (1994)

B. JEAN FLOYD, AUTHOR Good Questions Make Us Think. Good Stories Help Us Understand. ~ Devaki Bhujang Gajare

CHRISTINA PELLEGRINO, ILLUSTRATOR The One Thing That You Have That Nobody Else Has Is You. Your Voice, Your Mind, Your Story, Your Vision. So Write And Draw And Build And Play And Dance And Live As Only You Can. ~ Neil Gaiman

FANTE BRADFORD, STORY CONSULTANT Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Talented, Fabulous. Actually, Who Are You Not To Be? ~ Marianne Williamson

JAQUAIE McATEE, AUTHOR No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy. ~General James Mattis, USMC, Retired

JORDAN BEECHAM, ARTIST How One Does Anything Is How They Do Everything. ~ Unknown

KAYYA TEAGUE, EDITOR Write Without Fear. Edit Without Mercy. ~Unknown

MEGAN JOSEPH, EDITOR Everything I’ve Ever Done, In The Writing World, Has Been To Expand Articulation, Rather Than To Close It. ~ Toni Morrison

MEISHA MAYO, EDITOR Nothing Can Dim The Light That Shines From Within. ~ Maya Angelou

MICHAEL PIEKNY, EDITOR To Make Out Of The Material Of The Human Spirit Something Which Was Not There Before. ~ William Faulkner

YONG TAKAHASHI, AUTHOR We Don't Rise To The Level Of Our Expectations, We Fall To The Level Of Our Training. ~ Archilochus