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I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

Warsan Shire

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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
Poet
Writer
Republic of Kenya
Lovers
Lonely
Without
Singles
Lover
Belong
Loneliness
Lovely
Deeply

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To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’
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Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.
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My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
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How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
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And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back.
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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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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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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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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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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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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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