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

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

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

Maybe that's what growing up is. When you can't be who you are and do what everyone's telling you to do at the same time anymore. - Rowie from Sister Mischief

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

This is an unbearable kiss, unbearable, unreal, unimaginable.” - Esme from Sister Mischief

I bet that dog-walking trollop called the cops on us. - Esme from Sister Mischief

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.

Hip-hop is a reflection of your surroundings and an instrument of change. - Esme from Sister Mischief

To achieve peace, we needed to have a war to start with.

Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.

...Studies have found that children who witness abuse are more likely to accept relationships that are abusive.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words are the way they are. It's just the logic of the poem to me.

In tough economic times, we have to make every dollar count, and studies have shown a return of up to $17 for every dollar invested in early childhood.