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Each of these failures for me is a failure of communication, via a mode of communication that can be violent or meant to behave violently. Butler provides a way of thinking about how language becomes an instrument of violence. And why we feel it as such.

Claudia Rankine's Popular Quotes

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.

- Claudia Rankine

Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

- Claudia Rankine

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

- Claudia Rankine

When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don'…

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You 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 c…

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You want to belong, you want to be here. In interactions with others you're constantly waiting to see that they recognize that you're a human being. …

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The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.

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Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

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I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

- Claudia Rankine