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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
Warsan Shire
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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
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Republic of Kenya
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I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes on my face they are still together.
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Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.
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The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.
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At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.
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Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.
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My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
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I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.
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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.
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Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.
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My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.
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I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
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You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.
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