Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes. Warsan Shire More Quotes by Warsan Shire More Quotes From Warsan Shire With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'. Warsan Shire voice color sound I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. Warsan Shire being-single lonely loneliness We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there. Warsan Shire care tomorrow way How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps? Warsan Shire lap feet men I belong deeply to myself. Warsan Shire broken-heart broken heart 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 longing burning body 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 the-end-of-the-day ends home 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 I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are Warsan Shire eye mother father I tend to the wound so often, it never heals. Warsan Shire wounds heal 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 betrayal love two 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 kissing song trying To my daughter I will say, ‘when the men come, set yourself on fire.’ Warsan Shire daughter fire men There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters. Warsan Shire chosen intimacy two I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living. Warsan Shire glorify kind 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 sweet baby country You can't make homes out of human beings. Warsan Shire shire humans home 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 making-love hurt secret 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 growing-up mother father Your mouth is a lonely place but I keep coming back. Warsan Shire lonely-places lonely mouths
