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Claudia Rankine
American
1963
Poet
You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.
Claudia Rankine
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Money
You
Want
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
Claudia Rankine
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Sports
Think
Out
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
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Alone
You
Your
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
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You
Me
Just
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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Death
You
Out