Citizen Rankine Quotes & Sayings

Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it. — Hilton Als

And won't he grow up to be the healthiest of young men, all because she kept him safe? Ready for the world. Ready to one day conquer it. To travel. Get on a train. Go to work. Get blown out of her life.
Maybe she should be having that glass of wine and cigarette after all. — Melina Marchetta

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

My life and career is my own adventure. — Dario Argento

There's only one thing on my mind. There's only one goal. One aim. One focus. — Triple H

She wasn't bored. She was surprised to find herself having fun, not being shushed for wisecracks
or expected to sit quietly and behave. It was, she thought, a lot like hanging out with Theo and their
father - only different. Good different. And she was smart enough to realize it was the first women's
outing she'd ever had. Smart enough to understand Pilar knew it, too.
She didn't even mind being dragged into the dress shop, or having the conversation turn absolutely
and completely to clothes and fabric and color and cut.
And when she watched Sophia dash in, windblown, flushed, happy, Maddy at not quite fifteen had
a revelation. She wouldn't mind being like her, like Sophia Giambelli — Nora Roberts

I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown. — Alan Garner

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. — Dale Carnegie

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look? — Melanie Chisholm

I was going to come in and push you down the stairs ... — Jennifer Lawrence

The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact. — Claudia Rankine

I eat like seven men together. — Thalia

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of. — Neil Gaiman

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - CROWFOOT, CHIEF OF THE SIKSIKA FIRST NATION, 1890 — Richard Louv

And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you. — Claudia Rankine