“This is the joyous destiny of our people—to bury the arc of the moral universe so deep in justice that it will never be undone.” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“What makes the self? Experiences. Acculturation. What else? I don't know. What's within you. She says, I don't know what was within me and… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“Dissent is verbal resistance. It is the affirmation of our voices, of our worth. It is, in a democracy, a fundamental right. And, in… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“I work hard to embody you, Mama Harriet. When I learned that after you escaped, your brothers had second thoughts and turned back, but you kept going, it gave me the strength to keep going. When I learned that you went back to bring your husband to freedom, and he refused to come with you, instead electing to stay with… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share
“It is love that pushes us to face the journey toward justice without flinching, love that impels us to keep going on the long,… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass.” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“You see, Mama Harriet, the conundrum that you encountered is the same set of contradictions that we encounter. We had a Black president who… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“No, I wanted to say, he didn't cut off her hands because he didn't have to, he had cut them off long before, with years of keeping all authority in his own palms, all the rules and all the power and all the answers emanating from him and no one else. And if you don't understand that, if you've never… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share
“Nothing changes if we just feel shitty about being White. And nothing changes if we refuse to talk about it. The opposite of white pride does not have to be white shame. We can’t push it away and pretend it’s not us. We are not color-blind, we are not post-race, we do not get to reject our whiteness because it… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share
“I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” published in The Fire Next Time in 1963 (the… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“There's that feeling that comes when you read something and the lines speak directly to you, and to you only, even though the person… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
