Angry Quote by Claudia Rankine

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

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

“because white men can't police their imagination black people are dying”

— Claudia Rankine

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

Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

— Claudia Rankine

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

— Claudia Rankine

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

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

— Claudia Rankine

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

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

— Claudia Rankine

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

— Claudia Rankine

I’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.

— Claudia Rankine