Claudia Rankine Quotes
Top 43 wise famous quotes and sayings by Claudia Rankine
all in good fun, 
context is not meaning. 
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. 
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. 
If abandoned rage asks, Who should answer for this?/Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.
Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood. 
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't. 
That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice. 
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. 
It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates. 
The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you. 
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. 
There is/no reasoning with need. 
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. 
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. 
Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body? 
Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background. 
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. 
You don't become a poet if you want to make any money. 
I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies. 
Memory is a tough place. You were there. 
And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you. 
the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip. 
Define loneliness? Yes.
It's what we can't do for each other.
I don't write every day. I write when I want to write. 
Nobody notices, only you've known,you're not sick, not crazy,
not angry, not sad
It's just this, you're injured.
Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word.