Citizen Claudia Rankine Quotes

#1. Moments are the true currency of life, and the good ones make you rich.

Ben Tolosa

#2. The book, 'Citizen,' begins with daily encounters, little moments, places where language reveals how racism determines how we interact.

Claudia Rankine

#3. Since the writing of our Constitution, our religious liberties have been systematically threatened and whittled away by Supreme Court justices who interpret the First Amendment as a prohibition against religious activity on public property.

Tim LaHaye

#4. There are two worlds out there - two Americas out there. If you're a white person, there's one way of being a citizen in our country, and if you're a brown or a black body, there's another way of being a citizen, and that way is very close to death. It's very close to the loss of your life.

Claudia Rankine

#5. Over the following two years Essie became an accomplished shop-lifter, her wide skirts capable of concealing a multitude of sins,

Neil Gaiman

#6. I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present.

David Levithan

#7. Obviously, I would have been happier if Canada had not been conquered in the past by the English, if this part of North America had remained French, but you can't rewrite history.

Jean Chretien

#8. There is no greater burden or torture in this life than for a mother to live without one of her children

Unknown

#9. At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.

John Dryden

#10. And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.

Claudia Rankine