Claudia Rankine Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

  Claudia Rankine

  Past, World, Flesh

  "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, July 2, 2015.

• The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

  Claudia Rankine

  Past, Tomorrow, Blunt

  Claudia Rankine (2014). “Citizen: An American Lyric”, p.65, Macmillan

• The world is wrong. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you. Who did what to whom on which day? Who said that? She said what? What did he just do? Did she really say that? He said what? What did she do? Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? Do you remember when you sighed?

  Claudia Rankine

  Thinking, Past, Behind You

  "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, October 7, 2014.

• I don't think people want to look at problems. They want a continuous narrative, an optimistic narrative. A narrative that says there's a present and a future - and what was in the past no longer exists.

  Claudia Rankine

  Optimistic, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants that. And yet, that's what it is. Maybe it's a kind of surrealist move, to use language like "post-racial" - thinking that if you create the language for it, it will happen. I wish it worked that way. But that's not our reality.

  Claudia Rankine

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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