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The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
— Claudia Rankine
The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.
— Claudia Rankine
He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you no one would come.
— Claudia Rankine
Did you win? he asks.It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson. — Claudia Rankine
How to care for the injured body,the kind of body that can't hold
the content it is living? — Claudia Rankine
I'm not investigating race as much as I'm investigating intimacy.
— Claudia Rankine
-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.
— Claudia Rankine
Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.
— Claudia Rankine
Yes, and though watching tennis isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment.
— Claudia Rankine
Because white men can'tpolice their imagination
black men are dying — Claudia Rankine
People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the Wild Things.
— Claudia Rankine
That's the bruise in the heart the ice in the heart was meant to ice.
— Claudia Rankine
If you make a mistake, then you should own that mistake.
— Claudia Rankine
The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.
— Claudia Rankine
The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.
— Claudia Rankine
Define loneliness? Yes.
It's what we can't do for each other. — Claudia Rankine
I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.
— Claudia Rankine
Memory is a tough place. You were there.
— Claudia Rankine
And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.
— Claudia Rankine
When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.
— Claudia Rankine
the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip.
— Claudia Rankine
I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.
— Claudia Rankine
context is not meaning.
— Claudia Rankine
I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.
— Claudia Rankine
Nobody notices, only you've known,you're not sick, not crazy,
not angry, not sad
It's just this, you're injured. — Claudia Rankine
Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.
— Claudia Rankine
all in good fun,
— Claudia Rankine
You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.
— Claudia Rankine
Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn't be an ambition.
— Claudia Rankine
If abandoned rage asks, Who should answer for this?/Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up. — Claudia Rankine
Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.
— Claudia Rankine
Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?
— Claudia Rankine
And still you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.
— Claudia Rankine
A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.
— Claudia Rankine
There is/no reasoning with need.
— Claudia Rankine
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
— Claudia Rankine
The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.
— Claudia Rankine
It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.
— Claudia Rankine
I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.
— Claudia Rankine
That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice.
— Claudia Rankine
