Claudia Rankine - Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric (2004)

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The subject who speaks is situated in relation to the other. This privilege of the other ceases to be incomprehensible once we admit that the first fact of existence is neither being in itself nor being for itself but being for the other, in other words, that human existence is a creature. By offering a word, the subject putting himself forward lays himself open and, in a sense, prays.

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Define loneliness?
Yes.
It's what we can't do for each other.

Claudia Rankine