Hanif Abdurraqib, Amerikalı şair, denemeci ve kültür eleştirmenidir. 2016 şiir koleksiyonu The Crown Ain't Worth Much, 2017 deneme koleksiyonu They Can't Kill Us They Can't They Kill Us, 2019 kurgusal olmayan kitap Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes on A Tribe Called Quest'in yazarıdır.
And maybe this is what it’s like to live in these times: the happiness is fleeting, and so we search for more while the world burns around us. There is optimism in that, too, in knowing that more happiness is possible.
Joy, or the concept of joy, is often toothless and vague because it needs to be. It is both hollow and touchable, in part because it is something that can’t be explained as well as it can be visualized and experienced.