Warsan Shire Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Warsan Shire

  Home, The End Of The Day, Ends

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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.

  Warsan Shire

  Love, Betrayal, Two

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• To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’

  Warsan Shire

  Daughter, Men, Fire

  "Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth". Book by Warsan Shire, December 29, 2011.

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• I belong deeply to myself.

  Warsan Shire

  Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

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• There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.

  Warsan Shire

  Two, Intimacy, Chosen

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• Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.

  Warsan Shire

  Hurt, Making Love, Secret

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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.

  Warsan Shire

  Sad, Time, Moving

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• You can't make homes out of human beings.

  Warsan Shire

  Home, Shire, Humans

  "For women who are difficult to love". Poem from digital album "The seven stages of being lonely", February 14, 2012.

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

  Warsan Shire

  Heal, Wounds

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• Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.

  Warsan Shire

  Song, Kissing, Trying

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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.

  Warsan Shire

  Burning, Body, Longing

  Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”

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

  Warsan Shire

  Mother, Father, Eye

  "Teaching My Mother how to Give Birth". Book by Warsan Shire, December 29, 2011.

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• My heart is a flower blossoming out of my mouth.

  Warsan Shire

  Flower, Heart, Mouths

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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.

  Warsan Shire

  Kind, Glorify

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

  Warsan Shire

  Running, War, Smell

  Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”

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• Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back.

  Warsan Shire

  Lonely, Mouths, Lonely Places

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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.

  Warsan Shire

  Country, Sweet, Baby

  Source: kalamu.com

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• Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother. Growing up, I absolutely wanted a name that was easier to pronounce, more common, prettier. But then I grew up and understood the power of a name, the beauty that comes in understanding how your name has affected who you are.

  Warsan Shire

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

  Source: kalamu.com

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• My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.

  Warsan Shire

  Inspiration, People, 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.

  Warsan Shire

  War, Cancer, Apathy

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• I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

  Warsan Shire

  Airports, Language, Forget

  Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”

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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.

  Warsan Shire

  Thinking, Perfectly Normal, Sound

  Source: kalamu.com

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