"The youth has the duty to defend the homeland with the weapons of knowledge"
-Pedro Albizu Campos 
Puerto Rican Nationalist​

"When The City Sleeps is the neo-nuyo bonafide "poeta en nueva york"
-Michael Cirelli 
author of "The Grind"

"Rojas picks up what our forebears have brought us & leads with a great new collection for the canon"
-Mike Ladd
​Musician/Poet/Librettist

"This book made me feel as though I’d just heard Baraka or Sanchez “blow”
a new sound/solo on their Soul instruments" 
                            -Askia M. Touré​

Co-founder, The Black Arts Movement