I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable, for myself and for others. And yet, one has these people whom you trust, have faith in, whom you… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
People expect black women to be angry, irrationally so, without reason. They think we are animals and we go around like the… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I think that one of the positions we have taken around the question of race, is that we already know. We know.… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
We are invested in being together. In having friends. In joining our lives. And yet these are the people who also fail… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I think having a term for a condition that is prevalent is useful, because then people understand it as something not particular… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people -… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I don't know about forgiving, but it's an "I'm still here." And it's not just because I have nowhere else to go. It's because… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share
So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I wanted those… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share
“because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can stay in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share
I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share
The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share
Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body? — Claudia Rankine Copy Share
If you admit to being racist, it says you acknowledge that you are being driven by projections and stereotypes that were formed in the… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share
“I asked another friend what it's like being the mother of a black son. "The condition of black life is one of mourning," she… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share
