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“Eugênia’s story must be told and remembered so we don’t forget her. It’s symbolic, I know, but it’s these kinds of small gestures that remind us we must always seek freedom and that even in defeat there is victory, because there was a struggle.”
― Angélica Lopes, The Curse of the Flores Women

“Most music is the result of some intimacy with an instrument. One wraps one’s mouth around a whistle and pours one’s breath into it; one all but lays one’s cheek against a violin; and skin to skin is holy drummer’s kiss. But a harp is played most like a lover: you learn to lean its body against your breast, find those places of deepest, stiffest tension with your hands and finger them into quivering release.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

“So long as you can hear the waters, everything seems possible: that the sun is the moon, that a star is a cloud, that dusk is dawn, and everything is both hallowed and haunted at the same time.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots

“What is a river but an open throat; what is water but a voice?”
― Amal El-Mohtar, The River Has Roots