Quote by Claudia Rankine: “Because white men can't police their imaginations, black men are dying.”

This quote critically links racial violence to prejudiced perceptions, arguing that a failure of empathy and imagination by those in positions of power leads to tragic, often fatal, outcomes for marginalized communities. It highlights the deadly impact of bias.

From a seminal work on racial microaggressions and systemic racism in America, reflecting on police brutality and the everyday experience of being Black in a society permeated by racial bias.

Jamaican-American poet and essayist whose genre-bending collection Citizen: An American Lyric won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014. Her work explores race, belonging, and the accumulation of everyday indignity with formal innovation.