Nellie Campobello

"Dance and literature are both forms of revolutionary expression."

"To witness suffering is to be forever changed by it."

"Memory work is the work of love for those we have lost."

"The north of Mexico is a character in my story as much as any person."

"I became a chronicler because history demanded it of me."

"Writing allows the dead to speak through the living."

"The revolution was a teacher that wrote its lessons in blood and dust."

"To be an artist is to refuse the death of meaning."

"My work is a bridge between the revolution and those who come after."

"In documenting the revolution, I learned what it means to be truly alive."

"The voice of a woman recorder of history is itself a revolutionary act."

"I wrote so that the voiceless would have a voice in eternity."

"Memory, like revolution, is never finished; it continues to unfold."

"The body in motion tells truths that the tongue cannot speak."

"To love Mexico is to hold its pain and its promise simultaneously."

"Every story preserved is a victory against the death of meaning."

"The revolution demanded witnesses; I became one through my art."

"In Cartucho, I created a space where the dead could rest with dignity."

"My pen was my contribution to the ongoing struggle for justice."

"Literature keeps alive what violence tries to kill."

"I danced the revolution before I wrote it."

"The Mexican Revolution is alive in every authentic retelling of it."

"To write truthfully is to commit an act of rebellion."

"Memory is the only immortality available to the dispossessed."

"I chose art because it could survive the deaths of its subjects."

"The revolution taught me that ordinary people are the makers of history."

"To document suffering is to assert that it matters, that they mattered."

"My work is a love letter to Mexico and a requiem for its losses."

"In preserving stories, I preserve the possibility of justice."

"The north taught me that landscapes hold the memories of those who inhabit them."