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You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

Warsan Shire

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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
Poet
Writer
Republic of Kenya
Everyone
Beautiful
Women
Something
Love
Shire
Terrifying
Strange

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I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.
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Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.
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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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Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers.
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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
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You can't make homes out of human beings.
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I belong deeply to myself.
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I’m overwhelmed. My biggest downfall is my brightest blessing, I feel too much, all the time. Ya Allah, if it’ll keep my heart soft, break my heart every day.
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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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Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy
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It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
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Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
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To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’
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How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
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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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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
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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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