“Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change.”

“In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief”

“This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.”

“If I’m writing, at least I don’t feel as paralyzed.”

“Use all the ugliness you’re feeling to make something beautiful”

“Part of me is afraid that everyone will laugh, that I’m a caricature of myself.”

“This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.”