Quotes from book
Citizen: An American Lyric

Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book by the American poet Claudia Rankine. The book has been described as both criticism and poetry; critic Michael Lindgren has written that it has "boundary-bending potency...an innovative amalgam of genres".

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

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“Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn’t be an ambition.”

Claudia Rankine book Citizen: An American Lyric

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“because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying”

Claudia Rankine book Citizen: An American Lyric

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