Claudia Rankine Quotes
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
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Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature.
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People used to call me names, so my mom had this beautiful African lady come talk to me.
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Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'
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I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.
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I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
