77 Quotes by Nayyirah Waheed

if we must both be right.we will lose each other.

the worstthing that ever happenedtothe worldwasthe white man coming across gun powder.–– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy

eyes that commit. that is what I am looking for.

you were born for you.you were wanted by you.you came for you.you are here for you.your existence is yours.yes.you will want him. (and on odd and warm nights he will think of you and hold himself tighter.)but. what you do not get. from him.does not make you less.does not make you unwanted.(trust thatall you did not receive. all you need. will come to you. in time.the universe is infinite.’)

there is no healthier drug than creativity.

i have lost millions and millionsof words to fear.tell me that is not violence

your novels.the classic novels of a minutia. i have no interest in.pale. in comparison to the novels of my world.the novel of my mother.the novels of my grandparents.the articulate novels of how my people walk down a street.the novels i have been reading my whole life.— classic

you are a story.do not become a word.one word.because you want to be loved.love does not ask you to be nothingforsomething.–– name

have you everhearda black woman weep over her skinmurdered child.it is the splitting of atoms.it is billionsofvoices screaming their children’s namesthroughher death wail.–– trayvon martin ii