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Claudia Rankine Quotes:

Ocupation: Poet

Life: b. 1963

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.

- Claudia Rankine

source: "Citizen: An American Lyric". Book by Claudia Rankine, July 2, 2015.

topic: Past, World, Flesh, Cupboards

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