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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.

Warsan Shire

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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
Poet
Writer
Republic of Kenya
Somewhere
Maybe
Came
Ends
Home
Going
Never
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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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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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My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am absolutely in love with the sound of it and its meaning. Also, it's not the kind of name you baby, slip into sweet talk mid sentence, late night phone conversation, whisper into the receiver kind of name, so, of that I am glad.
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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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My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
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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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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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I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.
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I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.
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My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.
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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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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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You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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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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I belong deeply to myself.
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I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
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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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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
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