Claudia RankineI am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies. ✨ Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.372DeathTime
Claudia RankineWhere is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body? ✨ Claudia Rankine (2014). Citizen: An American Lyric, p.124, Macmillan374Sadness
Claudia RankineYou 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 stor… ▶257ReadingTime
Claudia RankineThe subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither be… ▶268HumanityLifeTruth
Claudia RankineI’m not investigating race as much as I’m investigating intimacy.259Humor
Claudia RankineYes, and the body has a memory. The physical carriage hauls more than its weight. The body is the threshold across which each objectionable call passes into consciousness—all the … ▶226ReadingTime
Claudia RankineThe worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you. ✨ Claudia Rankine (2014). Citizen: An American Lyric, p.127, Macmillan1310Death
