My tendency is to want to say to the person, "Do you understand why I feel this way?" I usually do say… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant… — 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
You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that… — 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 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 Image
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 Image
“because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
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 Image
Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying. — 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 you in… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.” — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
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 Image
Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body? — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
