Phrase by 'Claudia Rankine'
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When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetYou , Yourself , Alone , Tired
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.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetBlack , Fight , Matter , Dead
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetThink , Race , Sports , Pretend
If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetLife , Black , Change , Service
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.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetBlack , Men , Women , White
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.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetLove , You , Me , Sometimes
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetNever , American , Been , Imagination
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.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetBlack , Culture , Future , Matter
A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetPeople , Good , Politics , Feeling
As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body.
Author: Claudia Rankine - American PoetYou , Black , Understanding , Body
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