We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

Our house is on fire. I am here to say, our house is on fire. [...] Adults keep saying: “We owe it to the young people to give them hope.” But I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. I want you to act as you would in a crisis. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Because it is.

This cannot go on, nwunye m,’ Aunty Ifeoma said. ‘When a house is on fire, you run out before the roof collapses on your head.’

When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.

Translation:Our house is burning and we look elsewhere. Nature mutilated, overexploited is not able to recover and we refuse to admit it. From North to South, it suffers from ill-development, and we are indifferent. Earth and humanity are in great peril and we are accountable.

Who will hide from the fire that does not set?

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

Only a fool fights in a building that’s on fire.

What is our neighbor’s problem today will be our problem tomorrow. We are in danger, when our neighbor’s house is on fire.

That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine...

Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

Fire can burn your house down, or it can cook you dinner each night and keep you warm in the winter. Your mind is the same way.