“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 same year Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., penned another seminal and brilliant epistolary essay, “Letter from… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” — 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
“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
“I work hard to embody you, Mama Harriet. When I learned that after you escaped, your brothers had second thoughts and turned back, but… — 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
“She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass.” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share
“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
“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… — 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… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“He was like a bottle and music was the wine… She liked to be near him when it poured.” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share
“You are an ally because of your actions, not because you say you are. (Kate Schatz)” — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share
“The tone is at once tender and analytical, impassioned and nuanced, sweeping and deeply personal. Baldwin showed us that letter-essays, as a form, are… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share
