Define loneliness? Claudia Rankine More Quotes by Claudia Rankine More Quotes From Claudia Rankine As African-Americans, that's what's being played fast and loose with, our citizenship. When you have the Trayvon Martins and the Michael Browns being shot and killed, it's because, on a certain level, there is a kind of mutability in the understanding of citizenship around the black body. Claudia Rankine you black understanding body A hoodie is worn by everybody: kids, white men, white women, black men. But it clings to the black body as a sign of criminality like nothing else. Claudia Rankine women black white men You don't become a poet if you want to make any money. Claudia Rankine you poet money want 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 you black society life 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 you black life death When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows? Claudia Rankine woman you man work I don't write every day. I write when I want to write. Claudia Rankine every-day write day want
