excerpts from Harari, Vandermeulen, and Casanave’s “Sapiens”

excerpts from Abouet and Oubrerie’s “Aya”

excerpts from O’Donnell & Romero’s “Modesty Blaise”

excerpts from James Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time”

excerpts from A. R. Luria’s “The Mind of a Mnemonist”

excerpts from James Baldwin’s “I Am Not Your Negro”

excerpts from rupi kaur’s “milk and honey”

excerpts from Warsan Shire’s “teaching my mother how to give birth”

excerpts from Chögyam Trungpa’s “Shambhala”

excerpts from J. Krishnamurti’s “Freedom from the Known”

excerpts from Eckhart Tolle’s “The Power of Now”

excerpts from Fatimah Asghar’s “If They Come for Us”

excerpts from Chris Abani’s “The Face”

excerpts from June Jordan’s “Lyrical Campaigns”

excerpts from Víctor Terán’s “Poems/ Diidxado’”

excerpts from Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s “Decolonising he Mind”

excerpts from Jay Ghee’s “A Course on Self-Knowledge”

excerpts from Grace Nichols’s “Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman”

excerpts from Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya's “Doorkeeper of the Heart”

excerpts from Kwame Nkrumah’s “Consciencism”