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Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

Warsan Shire

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Warsan Shire
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: January 1
Poet
Writer
Republic of Kenya
Mistake
Peace
Body
Make
Manmade
Flaws
Mistakes

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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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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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My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
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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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We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
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To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’
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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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How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
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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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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 am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
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I belong deeply to myself.
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Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy
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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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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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Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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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 want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.
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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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