MILCK

"The rhetoric [during the 2016 presidential election] that was used to describe women really enraged me, and just kind of brought me back to those feelings of when I was younger. I was told I needed to "sit properly," and I need to "speak less" and "smile more" and "lose weight" and just be this perfect little girl."

"When I first released the song [Quiet], I put on my site like, "Im a survivor of abuse and anorexia and this is my song in response to it." And so when the song went viral, it became "the anti-Trump song," it was like a really political thing. And Im so glad I stuck to the truth...I was like Im not going to try to please others and say, oh yeah, this is not political. I just stuck with what it really was, my truth."

"For me to deal with my own anxieties about it and my friends anxieties, I can create art. Thats how I feel better about things... ["Quiet"] was just a way of giving people some space to feel love and hope in this time of fear mongering."

"[It is] so important for women of color to have a voice, because we have been living in a paradigm where women of color, and men of color, and all genders in-between color — our voices have not been as quote-unquote "valuable." That is a problem because that creates a sense of not belonging, and invisibility. I felt so voiceless, and like I didnt matter. Like I was an inconvenience of space because I didnt look like the woman in the magazine or I didnt have the same upbringing as the people I was watching on television. But now that women of color are rising...a lot of women of color are bearing a lot of responsibility of healing their cultures, and theres a way that women are able to empathize deeply, and they are able to express things that can maybe help the mainstream culture understand. Because I think the more we tell different types of stories, the more tolerance there will be."