What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.

—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965

Mai Mageed

Niki Kekos
June 4, 2019

Mai Mageed is a student at New York University. She is currently studying English and American Literature with a minor in Creative Writing. She hopes to use her education to pursue a career in screenwriting, striving to expand and emphasize literary and on-screen representation of the African American experience.

New York University