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Claudia Rankine Quote: “The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining against the devaluation of the black body. Despite good intentions, the associations of blackness with inarticulate, bestial criminality persist beneath the appearance of white civility. This assumption both frames and determines our individual interactions and experience as citizens.”

101. “The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. Consequently, our laws and attitudes have been straining against the devaluation of the black body. Despite good intentions, the associations of blackness with inarticulate, bestial criminality persist beneath the appearance of white civility. This assumption both frames and determines our individual interactions and experience as citizens.”

— Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine Quote: “He said, I don’t know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you no one would come.”

102. “He said, I don’t know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you no one would come.”

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Claudia Rankine Quote: “The girl is Catholic with waist-length brown hair. You can’t remember her name: Mary? Catherine? You never really speak except for the time she makes her request and later when she tells you you smell good and have features more like a white person. You assume she thinks she is thanking you for letting her cheat and feels better cheating from an almost white person.”

103. “The girl is Catholic with waist-length brown hair. You can’t remember her name: Mary? Catherine? You never really speak except for the time she makes her request and later when she tells you you smell good and have features more like a white person. You assume she thinks she is thanking you for letting her cheat and feels better cheating from an almost white person.”

— Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine Quote: “I suppose if all I had to do was bleach my hair blond to stop white supremacists from wanting to burn crosses in my yard, I might consider blondness myself. Certainly, the forty-fifth president and his family understand the importance of the blond signifier in their campaign to Make America Great Again.”

104. “I suppose if all I had to do was bleach my hair blond to stop white supremacists from wanting to burn crosses in my yard, I might consider blondness myself. Certainly, the forty-fifth president and his family understand the importance of the blond signifier in their campaign to Make America Great Again.”

— Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine Quote: “Yes, and this is how you are a citizen: Come on. Let it go. Move on.”

105. “Yes, and this is how you are a citizen: Come on. Let it go. Move on.”

— Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine Quote: “There are benefits to being without nostalgia. Certainly nostalgia and being without nostalgia relieve the past.”

106. “There are benefits to being without nostalgia. Certainly nostalgia and being without nostalgia relieve the past.”

— Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine Quote: “Her kind of security, because it’s not merely monetary, is atmospheric and therefore is not transferable. It’s what reigns invisible behind the term “white.”

107. “Her kind of security, because it’s not merely monetary, is atmospheric and therefore is not transferable. It’s what reigns invisible behind the term “white.”

— Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine Quote: “Senator Bernie Sanders, who was the hope of so many, considering Democratic losses after the 2018 midterm elections, remarked, “There are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American.” How is not voting for someone simply because they’re black not racist?”

108. “Senator Bernie Sanders, who was the hope of so many, considering Democratic losses after the 2018 midterm elections, remarked, “There are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American.” How is not voting for someone simply because they’re black not racist?”

— Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine Quote: “When the boys turned the corner was inflammation in the air already forming knuckles as they pummeled the body being kicked and beaten until knocked unconscious his right eye closed shut blood refusing to clot flowing from both ears were they hearing their own breathing their own ears allowing their blows to take custody of this body fallen against the hardness of the concrete floor leveled without give?”

109. “When the boys turned the corner was inflammation in the air already forming knuckles as they pummeled the body being kicked and beaten until knocked unconscious his right eye closed shut blood refusing to clot flowing from both ears were they hearing their own breathing their own ears allowing their blows to take custody of this body fallen against the hardness of the concrete floor leveled without give?”

— Claudia Rankine

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