Quotes by Claudia Rankine

About Claudia Rankine:

Claudia Rankine is a Jamaican poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City. She has taught at Case Western Reserve University, Barnard College, University of Georgia, and in the writing program at the University of Houston. As of 2011, Rankine is the Henry G. Lee Professor of Poetry at Pomona College.
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Hey you — All our fevered history won't instill insight, won't turn a body conscious, won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothing to solve even as each moment is an answer.

Claudia Rankine

-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.

Claudia Rankine

If abandoned rage asks, / Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.

Claudia Rankine

There is/no reasoning with need.

Claudia Rankine

In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the indirectness of experience. Though the experience is social, thoughts...

Claudia Rankine

Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of,” or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody—Here you are. Here, he said to her. Here both re...

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Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that lasts the time it takes for this and then for that t...

Claudia Rankine

Author Bio

  • NameClaudia Rankine
  • DescriptionAmerican poet
  • Born1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionProfessor; Poet; Playwright