173 Quotes by Claudia Rankine





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    Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever--you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her. You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary moment, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating seconds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus.

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    What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only." - Claudia Rankine(cited near the title page of 'An American Marriage")

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    What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only. - Claudia Rankine(cited near the title page of 'An American Marriage' by Tayari Jones)

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    When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?

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    There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life.

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