Author: Claudia Rankine

Quotes

How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.

How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.

- 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.

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

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

- Claudia Rankine

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

- 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.

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

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

- Claudia Rankine

When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?

When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?

- Claudia Rankine

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