Rankine Citizen Quotes & Sayings

Love laid his sleepless head
On a thorny rose bed:
And his eyes with tears were red,
And pale his lips as the dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business. — John C. Maxwell

It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible. — Justin Sirois

Make no mistake- you can change things. Question everything, take nothing for granted; argue with all received ideas, don't respect what does not deserve respect; speak your mind, don't censor yourself; use your imagination and express what it tells you to express. These are the weapons of the mind. — Salman Rushdie

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

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. — Rick Warren

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

Fanfiction belongs online, books are published to be held. — Sky Diamond

If you know what you want, you find the strength to work for its fulfillment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer
When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny. — Thomas Paine

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

I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that. — Raymond Kelly

Women shouldn't bother saying things to men about the intricate rules of clothing, such as what was appropriate to wear and when. It wasn't that men didn't listen. It was that they were genetically programmed not to process such statements. — Kristen Ashley

I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a feudal order: the aristocratic dispensation of leisure time, the refinements of the self. With the shift from feudal aristocracy to democracy there has been a long process of evolution. I think we're in the throes of a kind of steep, logarithmic shift, and I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them. — Ayad Akhtar

I'm not naturally a person that wants to exercise, but I find running is something I can do wherever I am in the world. — Katherine Jenkins

Create your own path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel. — Chris Cleave