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

excerpts from Kwame Nkrumah’s “Consciencism”

excerpts from Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”

excerpts from Lao Tzu’s “Tao Te Ching”

excerpts from Maitena’s “Women on the Edge 4”

excerpts from Lorraine Hansberry's "Les Blancs"

excerpts from S. Yizhar’s “Khirbet Khizeh”

excerpts from Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower”

excerpts from Joe Sacco’s “Paying the Land”