Date: 2014
"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."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"No, it's a strange beach; each body is a strange beach, and if you let in the excess emotion you will recall the Atlantic Ocean breaking on our heads."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"She'd heard that once and was trying to stamp the phrase on her mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"The days of our childhood together were steep steps into a collapsing mind."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"Those years of and before me and my brothers, the years of passage, plantation, migration, of Jim Crow segregation, of poverty, inner cities, profiling, of one in three, two jobs, boy, hey boy, each a felony, accumulate into the hours, inside our lives where we are all caught hanging, the rope i...
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: September 12, 2014
"He explains that there are two warring parts of the brain: a hot part demanding immediate gratification (the limbic system), and a cool, goal-oriented part (the prefrontal cortex)."
preview | full record— Druckerman, Pamela (b. 1970)
Date: February 9, 2015
"Now I know for sure that the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone."
preview | full record— Alexander, Elizabeth (b. 1962)