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How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Answer Black Body Female Give How Keep Life My Own Own Present Question Society Something Through Try Value You

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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.

~Claudia Rankine

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The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Begins Book Citizen Daily Determines Encounters How Interact Language Little Moments Places Racism Reveals Where

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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?

~Claudia Rankine

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

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Although Itself Out Places Plays Pretend Publicly Race Sports Think Where I Think

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I don't write every day. I write when I want to write.

~Claudia Rankine

Topics: Day Every Every Day Want Write I Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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