Dr martin luther king Quote by Carolina De Robertis

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

— Carolina De Robertis

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton cannot write a timeless letter to us from a Birmingham jail or walk, as John Lewis did in 1965,…

— Shelby Steele

I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.'…

— John Lewis

I love James Baldwin's autobiographical writing.

— Carrie Brownstein

“Growing up, I always had a journal – whether it was a marble composition book or a pretty hardcover journal—I reached out to it…

— Sandra Proto

“It's not quite as valuable as if it had been written in 1929, when Martin Luther King was born.”

— Clayborne Carson

“He ran his finger down the hardcover keyboard of book spines. Individual memories of each, particularly his first experience with every title, burned through…

— Anonymous

“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

“But sometimes unexpected things happen that can rouse an old memory, something seminal, a past event so momentous and strong that, like a rare…

— Steve Duno

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

— Kalidou Koulibaly

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.

— John Lewis

What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being…

— Manning Marable