Ella Hachee

“Raise a glass to freedom
Something they can never take away
No matter what they tell you”
― Lin-manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Unless Lin made the whole thing up - and nobody has said that he did - it suggest that however innovative Obama's speeches and Lin's show might seem, they are, in fact, traditional. They don't reinvent the American character, they renew it. They remind us of something we forgot, something that fell as far out of sight as the posthumously neglected Alexander Hamilton, who spent his life defending one idea above all: "the necessity of Union to the respectability and happiness of this Country." Obama's speeches and Lin's show resonate so powerfully with their audiences because they find eloquent ways to revive Hamilton's revolution, the one that spurred Americans to see themselves and each other as fellow citizens in a sprawling, polyglot, young republic. It's the change in thought and feeling that makes all the other changes possible.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Forgiveness. Can you imagine?”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“(On 'The Story Of Tonight (Reprise)')

Tommy Kail and I always described this scene as “When your hometown friends are at the party with your college friends.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution