Quotes by Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire

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.

Feels

Love You

Moments

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.

Daughter

Giving

Names

I belong deeply to myself.

Broken

Broken Heart

Heart

I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are still together.

Eye

Father

Mother

I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.

Heal

Wounds

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.

Perfectly Normal

Sound

Thinking

I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.

Running

Smell

War

I won’t glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

Glorify

Kind

I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

Dark

Girl

Stars

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.

Beautiful

Feminism

Responsibility

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Beautiful

Being Alone

Being Single

Body

Broken

Broken Heart

Care

Dark

Daughter

Eye

Falling In Love

Father

Feels

Feminism

Flaws

Flower

Girl

Giving

Glorify

Hands

Heal

Heart

Home

Humans

Kind

Loneliness

Love

Love You

Mistake

Moments

Mother

Mouths

Moving

Names

Perfectly Normal

Responsibility

Running

Sad

Shire

Smell

Sound

Stars

Thinking

Time

Tomorrow

War

Way

Wish

Women

Wounds

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Quotes by Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire

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.

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.

I belong deeply to myself.

I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are still together.

I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.

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.

I want to love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.

I won’t glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

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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