Sometimes the art pieces I gravitate toward speak to me in terms of narrative, at other times they speak to me in terms of mood.
The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you. - Claudia Rankine
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
Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.
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… - Claudia Rankine
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…
The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you. - Claudia Rankine
The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much / to you.
The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow. - Claudia Rankine
The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
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. … - Claudia Rankine
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. …
Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other. - Claudia Rankine
Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.
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'… - 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'…
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
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.
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