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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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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When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.
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Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.
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I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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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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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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I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes on my face they are still together.
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We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
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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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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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To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
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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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