Ana

“My music is not staid or proper, pretty or respectable. It is not for the mother looking for a biddable bride for her son at church or for the son looking for a pretty housekeeper to call his wife. It is adventurous and weighty, loud and boisterous, fuming when it wants to be and despondent when it needs to be. It is unapologetically emotional in a way I am never allowed to be without consequence. My music is a girl who behaves like a boy: flat shoes and comfortable slacks, loud-mouthed and ready to take on the world. My music is black in a place where black isn’t an insult: it’s shining, proud, and unworried. I let myself transform into wood and sound and vibration.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“I don’t want you soaking up any of that crap about so-called dangerous Black boys from those Crayola men, you hear me? And if you want to keep protesting, you do that. World changes ’cause kids like you and Fay change it.”
― Shanna Miles, For All Time

“My dad’s words come back….
A man’s not a man without his paycheck.
And what I thought when I left Scoop’s…
But a man who doesn’t protect his family is no man either.
And my add-on…
But one man can’t protect everyone.
And a wave of peace comes over me as I bring it full circle.
And a boy shouldn’t have to try”
― Brittney Morris, The Cost of Knowing

“Never trust a duck.”
― Will Herondale