The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen.… — 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
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
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
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 also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
You become a role model because of what you do as a person. There's a certain point where being a role model… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just… — 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
