77 Quotes by Nayyirah Waheed

i want to keep our body above water.you want to make us a fish.— fish

the prayers where we do not wish others well.for all the brilliant. fetid. noxious. reasons.the prayers we want to wash from the sky. as soon as they leaveour imagination.the ones born with no bones. so they leave no trace.the harmful prayers. we pray.becausewe have been harmed.we are forgiven those too.— the soft law (forgiveness)

i have a life to garden.a multiverse to wake from sleep.— giants

Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.

healingbeginsthe momentyouwant it to

i am relieved.wheni see the feminine presencein a man’s eyes.it meanshe is a peacei do nothavetobring to him.–– ease

he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with ‘being a man.’ ‘being a man’ had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless

whenever i think aboutmy mother and father and the amount of cruelty i have ate at their hands i remember that i am the best of them.and i am at peace.

as a childthere was eitherbooksorpain.i chose books.-how i became a writer