“It’s really important to have agency and be vulnerable.” Carla Sameth shares insights along with some of her joys and sorrows in her memoir in essays – One day on the gold line. “It’s about the challenges around race and identity and police violence….I kind of wrote the book I wanted to read. I wanted to read more about people who were struggling with some of the same issues I did.”
“I really felt a sense of connection when I read work by authors who went there. Who did show themselves in all their ugliness and flaws; the joy and the despair. I felt less alone when I read work like that.”
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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