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I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes on my face they are still together.
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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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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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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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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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
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Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth. Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? You’re here now, welcome home.
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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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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
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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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You can't make homes out of human beings.
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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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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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My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
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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 tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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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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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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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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To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’
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