The importance of the arts to medicine and medical education is a source of fascination for many, often taking the form of “What’s on the doctor’s bookshelf?”1,2 We give less attention as a profession to what arts are important to patients, the arts they share and how they talk about them, and the “libraries” they accumulate over time as a result. When working with adolescent patients in an urban, community-based clinic, it is a topic I have found important in efforts to bridge divides of age, class, and experiences of racism.