--- title: "2 James Baldwin Quotes By Carolina De Robertis" description: "2 James Baldwin quotes by Carolina De Robertis. Plus more from Carolina De Robertis and more James Baldwin sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/carolina-de-robertis-25731_dr-martin-luther-kin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_1805711.jpg" --- > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter-to-my-nephew-on-the-one/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/carolina-de-robertis-25731_dr-martin-luther-kin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_1805711.jpg) > [“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter-to-my-nephew-on-the-one-2/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a1/carolina-de-robertis-25731_james-baldwin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_2639296.jpg) ## Other authors on James Baldwin ## More by Carolina De Robertis > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/what-makes-the-self-experiences-acculturation-what-else-i-don-t-know/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“Dissent is verbal resistance. It is the affirmation of our voices, of our worth. It is, in a democracy, a fundamental right. And, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/dissent-is-verbal-resistance-it-is-the-affirmation-of-our-voices-of/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“I work hard to embody you, Mama Harriet. When I learned that after you escaped, your brothers had second thoughts and turned back, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/i-work-hard-to-embody-you-mama-harriet-when-i-learned-that-after-you/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“It is love that pushes us to face the journey toward justice without flinching, love that impels us to keep going on the long,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/it-is-love-that-pushes-us-to-face-the-journey-toward-justice-without/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/she-was-awake-alive-full-of-ideas-like-branches-in-a-greenhouse/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“You see, Mama Harriet, the conundrum that you encountered is the same set of contradictions that we encounter. We had a Black president who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/you-see-mama-harriet-the-conundrum-that-you-encountered-is-the-same/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/no-i-wanted-to-say-he-didn-t-cut-off-her-hands-because-he-didn-t-have/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“Nothing changes if we just feel shitty about being White. And nothing changes if we refuse to talk about it. The opposite of white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/nothing-changes-if-we-just-feel-shitty-about-being-white-and-nothing/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/i-want-to-believe-in-prophecies-more-than-policies-i-want-to-listen/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/the-human-story-is-one-of-continual-branching-movement-out-of-africa/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter-to-my-nephew-on-the-one/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/there-s-that-feeling-that-comes-when-you-read-something-and-the-lines/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“He was like a bottle and music was the wine… She liked to be near him when it poured.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/he-was-like-a-bottle-and-music-was-the-wine-she-liked-to-be-near-him/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“You are an ally because of your actions, not because you say you are. (Kate Schatz)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/you-are-an-ally-because-of-your-actions-not-because-you-say-you-are/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/the-tone-is-at-once-tender-and-analytical-impassioned-and-nuanced/) [Carolina De Robertis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carolina-de-robertis/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/james-baldwin/carolina-de-robertis/#itemlist", "name": "2 James Baldwin Quotes By Carolina De Robertis", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 Birmingham”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Carolina De Robertis" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter-to-my-nephew-on-the-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/carolina-de-robertis-25731_dr-martin-luther-kin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_1805711.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/carolina-de-robertis-25731_dr-martin-luther-kin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_1805711.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/carolina-de-robertis-25731_dr-martin-luther-kin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_1805711.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,”…” — Carolina De Robertis", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Carolina De Robertis" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carolina-de-robertis/james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter-to-my-nephew-on-the-one-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a1/carolina-de-robertis-25731_james-baldwin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_2639296.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a1/carolina-de-robertis-25731_james-baldwin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_2639296.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a1/carolina-de-robertis-25731_james-baldwin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_2639296.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” — Carolina De Robertis", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/james-baldwin/carolina-de-robertis/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/james-baldwin/carolina-de-robertis/", "name": "James Baldwin Quotes by Carolina De Robertis", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/james-baldwin/carolina-de-robertis/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44f/carolina-de-robertis-25731_dr-martin-luther-kin_james-baldwin-s-my-dungeon-shook-letter_1805711.jpg" }, "description": "2 James Baldwin quotes by Carolina De Robertis. 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