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Claudia Rankine Quotes

The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.

Claudia Rankine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1963

Topics

Imagination American Never Beginnings

If I wasn't doing music, I would be a makeup artist.

Jessie James Decker

Music Makeup Doing Artist Would

I thought about being gay, but it didn't fit.

Thought Gay Being Fit About

I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'

People Me Black You I Can Person

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

Musicians Long You Never Tell Been

Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.

Time I Am World Laugh Feelings Why

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Leadership Good People Bad Skills

We just wrote songs that seemed good to us. We wrote the album in like two weeks. We could have had more time, but we accomplished what we needed to in the two weeks.

Good Time More Two Us Just

I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

Mary Ellen Mark

People Me Learn Possibilities Camera

When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.

Satire Cruel Powerless Only Vulgar

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Jean Baudrillard

World Boredom Crime Worst First

I don't think I would go back and change anything that's happened in my career, because maybe those things were steppingstones to where I am now.

Change I Am Think Back Career Go

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

Christine Lahti

Yourself Doing You Excitement Left

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