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My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.
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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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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How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
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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 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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You can't make homes out of human beings.
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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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Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.
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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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Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.
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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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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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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 am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.
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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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You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
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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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And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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