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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
Poet
Writer
Republic of Kenya
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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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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 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 heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.
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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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With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.
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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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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 tend to the wound so often, it never heals.
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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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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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Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back.
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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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Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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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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Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.
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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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How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?
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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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