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Quote by Warsan Shire

“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”

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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

“We seem so frightened today of being alone that we never let it happen. Even if family, friends, and movies should fail, there is still the radio or televsion to fill up the void... We can do our housework with soap-opera heroes at our side... Now instead of planting our solitude with our own dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum. When the noise stops there is no inner music to take its place. We must re-learn to be alone.”

“Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.”

Giving Track Obvious Laying Down

Author:Claude Chabrol

“The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.”

Needs Humans Human Beings Loneliness Overcoming Prison Being Alone Separateness

Author:Erich Fromm

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.”

Night Black Loneliness Television Solitude Late Music Is Coffee Tea Being Alone Herbs Late Night Black Coffee

Book:Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

Source: Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth

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