Quotes by : Claudia Rankine

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.

Hey you —All our fevered history won't instill insight,won't turn a body conscious,won't make that....

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should....

There is/no reasoning with need.

It strikes me that what the attack on the World Trade Center stole from us is our willingness to be complex.....

Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating....

-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.

In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the....

Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American....

I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.....