Top 16 Quotes by Claudia Rankine

About Claudia Rankine

These are some quotes by American author Claudia Rankine Poet, who was born in 1963.

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

Claudia Rankine

I love language because when it succeeds, for me, it doesn't just tell me something. It enacts something. It creates something. And it goes both ways. Sometimes it's violent. Sometimes it hurts you. And sometimes it saves you.

Claudia Rankine

Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.

Claudia Rankine

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

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

Claudia Rankine

A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.

A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else.

Claudia Rankine

The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

Claudia Rankine

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