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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Carolina De Robertis

“She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Carolina De Robertis

“I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Carolina De Robertis

“He was like a bottle and music was the wine.... She liked to be near him when it poured.”

— Carolina De Robertis

“You are an ally because of your actions, not because you say you are. (Kate Schatz)”

— 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…

— Carolina De Robertis

“When days are scarce what better way to spend them than in a bout of madness.”

— Carolina De Robertis

“Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit.”

— Carolina De Robertis

“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,”

— Carolina De Robertis

“Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)”

— Carolina De Robertis

“But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer knows. Words make…

— Carolina De Robertis

“That people you don’t know are worth knowing, that they have something to teach you. That learning about them – that encountering…

— Carolina De Robertis

“This is the joyous destiny of our people—to bury the arc of the moral universe so deep in justice that it will…

— Carolina De Robertis