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Hanif Abdurraqib
“Death isn't the only way to die, though it can be argued that it is the most merciful.”
Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib
“With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns.”
Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“What was being weighed on the scales of the night”
Janet Finch

Hanif Abdurraqib
“I love the homecoming because I have known what it is to leave. I have seen the city I love from the sky just as I have seen the city I love from the cracks in between metal bars. Cherish the homecoming, because you know what lasts forever and what does not.”
Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Ocean Vuong
“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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