Environment Quote by Claudia Rankine

“I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.” quote by Claudia Rankine — Download Open image

“I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.”

Claudia Rankine

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

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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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Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

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