"Every unspoken thought is a revolution delayed."

"This wall holds what classrooms couldn't."

"I dream in metaphors I was never taught to speak."

"The first word is always the hardest."

"We are not silent. We were silenced."

"I found my voice when someone finally listened."

"Expression is not a luxury. It is survival."

"Nobody asked what I thought. So I stopped thinking aloud."

"My ideas died in classrooms where only one answer was right."

"They told me to be practical. I wanted to write poetry."

"I spent years believing my accent made my opinions less valid."