Blackness Quote by Claudia Rankine

“I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.” quote by Claudia Rankine — Download Open image

“I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.”

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Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

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“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

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The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself…

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If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

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Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

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