Here are some writers we admire and hope their words bring you inspiration: 

“Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.” - Min Jin Lee

“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.”- Maya Angelou

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.” - Ted Chiang

“All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles, and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.” - Octavia E. Butler

“There has to be a word for the kind of loneliness shared by two, a loneliness big enough to rechristen itself as lineage.” - Topaz Winters

“Writing is an inherently lonely activity. It requires you to be still and present and porous to whatever it is you want to say."- Aria Aber

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.” 

- Walt Whitman

“Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.”

-  Amanda Gorman

“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.” 

- Ocean Vuong 

“My mother always says that the story you believe depends on the body you're in. What you believe will depend on the color of your hair, your word for god, how many times you've been born, your zip code, whether you have health insurance, what your first language is, and how many snakes you have known personally.” - K-Ming Chang