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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.
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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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’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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I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.
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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 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 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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I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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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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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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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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