77 Quotes by Nayyirah Waheed

i am mine.before i am ever anyone else’s.— in

you are not racism.you are not racism.you are not racism.you are not racism.you are not racism.your skin is not burden.there is no mark against you.your being is a holy beauty.you.are a holy beauty.— ether

poetry.is an infusionofscaleand feather.bruiseand mist.

i will.and this will end.— closure | dankyes

white people are not chinesebecause they are born/live in chinawhite people are not indian.because they are born/live in india.white people are not african.because they are born/live on a continent they murdered their way into.- there is no such things as white african | colonial blood myths | a revisionist history

the way a poem bleaches everything the color of itself.this is the way people stain.— pomegranate

there is you and you.this is a relationship.this is the most important relationship.

the first time i met my mother.i knew she was not mine

i touched her in the middle of her heart.i never saw her again.–– scar