Peter Shankland

“Anger is a type of geography. The ways out of it expand the more you love a person. The more forgiveness you might be willing to afford each other opens up new and unexpected roads. And so, for some, staying angry at someone you love is a reasonable option. To stay angry at someone you know will forgive your anger is a type of love, or at least it is a type of familiarity that can feel like love.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

“They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“There are not enough roses in the world for me to lay at the feet of this impossible group, but I hope this effort counts. I hope Phife can see all of us still trying, from wherever he may be. I hope Q-Tip knows that he’s done something great. I hope when the time comes for the generation after mine to talk about what’s real, they’ll pull a Tribe CD out of their pockets, worn down from a decade’s use and perhaps an older sibling. I hope they’ll put it in a CD player and let a room be carried away.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

“When there is nothing to point to as an excuse for distance, the distance looms larger, more difficult to push.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest