“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”
Claudia Rankine book Citizen: An American Lyric
Source: Citizen: An American Lyric
Quotes from bookCitizen: An American Lyric
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".
“because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying”
Claudia Rankine book Citizen: An American Lyric
Source: Citizen: An American Lyric
