The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much <br> to you. - Claudia Rankine

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A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood on its head.

Claudia Rankine

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much
to you.

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Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

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I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

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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.

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Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

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So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I wanted those kinds of moments. And initially people would say, "I don't think I have any. " Their initial reaction was to render invisible those moments weaved into a kind of everydayness.

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And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

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