April

“You've already grasped that Sisyphus is the absurd hero. He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing nothing. That is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Doesn't matter how many stars are built or born on a cramped court, doesn't matter who gets a court or community center named after them. But trust: there are more of us, always. Whole gangs of us. Some of us carved our name into trees, into the wet concrete of new sidewalks. Some of us took knives to metal and wrote our names into the death traps of the playground. And so we stay, one way or another. We never make it out, and we never disappear. Permanence is the greatest stunt of them all.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension