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“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.”

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Warsan Shire is a British-Somali writer renowned for her poetry and prose. Her works often explore themes of identity, race, gender, and immigration, earning her praise from readers and critics alike. more

“I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”

People Thinking Want Whole Girl Stars Dark Boys Sky Brave Tragic Wow Want Me Find Me You Want Me Backdrop Shire Dark Sky

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“Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity. Tell people how you feel.”

People Feels Kind Asks Behinds Integrity Assuming Telling The Truth Be Kind Say Anything How You Feel Shire

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“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.”

People World Kind Long Body Moving Time Universe Sad Wounds Pace Wet Ache Stagnant Unhappy People Miserable People Gift Of Time

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“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.”

Knows Body Shame Longing Disappear Being True Burning Belonging Unwelcome Not Belonging

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“Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck.”

War Cancer Necks Breasts Apathy Machetes

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

I Can Language My Own Forget Hotel Airports Passports

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“There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.”

Two Chosen Intimacy

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“Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn't allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”

Want Giving Use Names Difficult Daughter Tongue Command Our Daughter Your Daughter Shire Tell Me The Truth

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“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”

People Problem Quality Intensity Shire

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