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 | WRITER | ARTIST

Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter

Chinua Achebe (1994)

B JEAN FLOYD | PUBLISHER | WRITER

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

EBUKA DON SYLVA | WRITER

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

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 | WRITER

No better friend, no worse enemy.

General James Mattis, USMC, Retired

JORDAN BEECHAM | ARTIST

How one does anything 

is how they do everything.

Unknown

KATYA TEAGUE | EDITOR

Write without fear. Edit without mercy.

Unknown

MEGAN JOSEPH | JOSEPH  EDITORIAL

Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it. 

Toni Morrison

MEISHA MAYO | PEN2PAPER EDITORIAL

Nothing can dim the light that shines 

from within.

Maya Angelou

MICHAEL PIEKNY | HUBEDITS

To make out of the material of the human spirit something which was not there before.

William Faulkner