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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

For all your previous understandings, suddenly incoherence feels violent. — 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't
police 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

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't. — Claudia Rankine

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. — Claudia Rankine