A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done. -Claudia Rankine Politics
The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings. -Claudia Rankine Imagination
A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done. -Claudia Rankine Poetry
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't. -Claudia Rankine Sports
