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 Read Quote
The book, ‘Citizen,’ begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact. Claudia Rankine Read Quote
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn’t. Claudia Rankine Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote