Quotes by Claudia Rankine

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

“Or one meaning of here is in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of, or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebodyHere...”

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

“Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that...”

“In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the indirectness of ...”

“It strikes me that what the attack on the World Trade Center stole from us is our willingness to be complex. Or what the attack on the World Trade Center revealed to us is that we were never comple...”

“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.”

“There is/no reasoning with need.”

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

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

“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.”

“Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of,” or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody—H...”

“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.”