Anabela Matos

“Every day I searched for new songs, and it was like applying for asylum. I just needed someone to help me escape from all the silence. I just needed people saying words about all the things that hurt them. And maybe this is why Papi stopped listening to music, because it can make your body want to rebel. To speak up. And even that young I learned music can become a bridge between you and a total stranger.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

“What you do when no one is guiding you determines who you are.”
― F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi

“Communities are always political projects, political projects that can never solely rely on identity.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Abolition Democracy

“Not to talk with people although they can be talked with is to waste people. To talk with people although they can't be talked with is to waste words. A man of understanding does not waste people, but he also does not waste words.”
― Confucius, The Analects