Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 blood and…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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