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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.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Because Both Both Ways Creates Goes Hurts Just Language Love Me Saves Something Sometimes Succeeds Tell Violent Ways You I Love

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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.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Black Body Else Everybody Kids Like Men Nothing Sign White Women Worn

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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.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Black Dead Earlier Fight Forgetting Front Lives Matter Mourning Movements Refuses Self-Preservation Tried Unlike Us

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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.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Alone Among Any Devices Even Linger Past Pillows Stacked Tired Too Turn You Your Yourself

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

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Able American Been Beginnings Fully Imagination Never Recover

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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.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Attempt Bears Because Black Both Culture Dynamic Exist Future Inherent Instability Keep Lives Matter Mourning Movement Open Our Read Regarding State Then Those Vulnerability

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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.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Altered American Asked Backed Being Black Change Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Course Demands Give King Life Lives Luther Made Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Matter More Movement Recognition Rights Rights Movement Service Those Up Willingness Your

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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.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Above Done Fact Feel Feeling Good In Fact Lot Lyric Never People Personal Poetry Politics Realm Rise Rise Above Should Which

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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.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Around Because Being Black Body Certain Certain Level Citizenship Fast Kind Level Loose Michael Our Played Shot Understanding You

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You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Any Become Make Money Poet Want You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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