Claudia Rankine Quotes
How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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Discomfort levels in our societies are rising, or so it would seem. In theory, we invoke diversity and tolerance. But in real life, we raise our hackles and withdraw into ourselves.
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The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to the public. They challenge us and ask us to question our assumptions about the past or the world around us.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?
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I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on something like foie gras and not have to think about it.
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I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.
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How do you keep the black female body present, and how do you own value for something that society won't give value to? It's a question I try to answer through my own life.
