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Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.

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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
Poet
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Republic of Kenya
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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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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
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How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
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Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back.
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We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
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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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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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You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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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 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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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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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
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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 heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.
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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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My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
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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 have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes on my face they are still together.
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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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