84 Quotes by Warsan Shire

Make peace with your body, it’s not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.

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

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

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.

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

The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.

You haven’t healed, I can tell from how cruel you are.

Why can’t you see me? Everyone else can.