By: Marco Tiyo Adriko
"So does your happiness smell like sugar and roses? Like cocoa butter? Should you go to Walmart, buy the scent and lather yourself in it in an attempt to re-experience the most joy you have ever felt in your life? Should you buy sugar cake and stuff your face with it until your body is screaming for a reprieve?"
By: Joanne Ndagire
"We must seek happiness the way we did as children; Unabashedly, selfishly and innocently."
By: Beatrice Mumbi
"My “I”/Unravels and flattens underneath the weight of your smile/Before dying underneath your iridescent light"
By: Rosine Izerumukiza
"Calling the heavens to remember your existence/Recalling the tides and offerings of Abraham/Asking Allah to furnish the misfortunes/May Buddha provide the bread".
By: EJ a la mode
"The best gift someone can give themselves is the chance to do things that make them happiest, even when it means going against the status-quo."
By: Anonymous
“A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world”
-Alice Walker
By: Natasha Muhanji
"There is pleasure in aberrance. Sweet, dark, and blindingly potent pleasure. No greater feeling than this. I would never eat the flesh of man but would consume one whole in other ways. I could eat his heart whole on a platter, I could drain his hopes and dreams while overseeing them as if they were a specimen, I could do so much, consummation is diverse."
By: Michelle Nikita
"I can never be another speck floating aimlessly through the cosmos when the cosmos flows through me."