Claudia Rankine Quotes About Negotiation

• The friends I have, and the people whom I admire, are people who have an understanding of the conditions under which we live, and have a humanist sense of the world. If that's lacking in my understanding of a person's negotiation of the world, I can't be close with that person.

  Claudia Rankine

  People, Understanding, World

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• I think of the described dynamics as a fluid negotiation. I don't think these specific interactions can happen to the black or brown body without the white body. And there are ways in which, if you say, "Oh, this happened to me," then the white body can say, "Well, it happened to her and it has nothing to do with me." But if it says "you," that you is an apparent part of the encounter.

  Claudia Rankine

  Pensar, Blanco, Negro

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to do, so you're going to take whatever life comes with that.

  Claudia Rankine

  Want, Lasts, Economy

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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