“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make and unmake the world with terrifying rapidity, and they do so without moral distinction…There is a battle going… — 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… — Carolina De Robertis Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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
