7 Quotes by Claudia Rankine about history
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Exactly why we survive and can look back with furrowed brow is beyond me.
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The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
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Memory is a tough place. You were there.
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The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really just say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?
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History's authority over us is not broken by maintaining a silence about its continued effects.
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There are benefits to being without nostalgia. Certainly nostalgia and being without nostalgia relieve the past.
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Hey you —All our fevered history won't instill insight,won't turn a body conscious,won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothingto solve even as each moment is an answer.
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