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Hanif Aburraqib quotes from "Gayotic with MUNA"

January 10, 2026

Some quotes from Hanif Aburraqib


Some quotes from Hanif Abdurraqib that I liked from a podcast episode of Gayotic with MUNA. This is the only episode of the podcast that I have heard.

It's this idea that if grief is to be ever present, if grief is to kinda make a home in all of us, and be immovable, then I think we deserve to be good stewards to it. We deserve to be gentle to it, and it, in turn, might be gentle to us.
Hanif Abdurraqib at 11:38
...if I left myself alone, to my own devices, I would trend towards nihilism. Many of us would. If we're lucky, we love people who are not us. We love people for whom the stakes of survival are different.
Hanif Abdurraqib at 15:30