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Nayyirah Waheed Quotes

Total quotes: 34
“I believe that everyone in the world has one poem that is their soulmate.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: Literate, soulmate, Fate, Beautiful Quotes
“What I never learned from my mother is that just because someone desires you does not mean they value you. Desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, The Color of Low Self Esteem(salt.)
Tagged: Desire, True Value
“do not disrespect your heart. by hearing what it needs and giving it the opposite.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Nayyirah Waheed on Twitter
Tagged: Respect, heart, Self-Respect, Desire, Listen to your heart
“I loved you
because
it was easier
than
loving myself.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, A quote by Nayyirah Waheed
Tagged: Love, Deep
“i think gentleness is one of the most disarmingly and captivatingly attractive qualities there are.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, A quote by Nayyirah Waheed
Tagged: gentleness, Attractive Qualities
“I love myself.’ the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution. ever.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Nayyirah Waheed on Tumblr
Tagged: Love, Self-Love, Self-Care, Self-Confidence
“I am trying to remember you,
and let you go at the same time.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, nejma
“Grieve. So that you can be free to feel something else.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, nejma
Tagged: motivation, Freedom of Expression
“Be a scar. Do not be ashamed of living through something.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, via twitter.com
Tagged: Living, Living Creatively, Living Fully, Life, Empowering, Pain, Trauma
“take your time. cleanse your heart.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Nayyirah Waheed on Twitter
Tagged: Patience, Time, Healing, heart, Recovery
“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, via Amazon
Tagged: Love, Being In Love, Looking For Love
“We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It’s how we learn. We breathe love. It’s how we learn. And it is inevitable.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, Kept Honey
Tagged: Pain, Love, Mistakes, Making Mistakes, hurt, Hurting Others, Human Nature, humanity
“i wish you love. simply and for no other reason. but because you deserve it.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Nayyirah Waheed via Twitter
Tagged: Love, Wishful Thinking, Wish for someone, wish in love
“stay is a sensitive word.
we wear
who stayed
and
who left
in our skin forever.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: People Leave, Past Memories, Poetic, Stay, sad and beautiful
“Both.
I want to stay.
I want to leave.
I am three oceans away from my soul.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: finding a place, Finding Yourself, Belongingness, belonging to this world, Love, romance, Soul Mates, Right Person, Self & Identity
“'no' might make them angry,
but
it will make you free.

- if no one has ever told you, your freedom is more important than their anger”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: boundaries, Saying No, Stop People-Pleasing, POC Poetry, Freedom, Their Anger Can Wait, human rights, Poetry, Quote of the Moment
“as a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, i know they have fallen in love with my mind. having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. art may be the only space a woman can be whole without being seen.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, via Tumblr
Tagged: Writing, Being A Writer, Female Writer, My Favorites, Being a woman, On Writing As A Female, feminism, Art
“if
the ocean
can calm itself
so can you.
we are both
salt water
mixed with
air.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: We Are Nature, Nature Is Us, The Natural Flow, Ebb and Flow, meditation, calm, Poetry, Poems, POC Poetry
“i am relieved.
when i see the feminine presence
in a man's eyes.
it means 
he is a peace
i do not
have
to
bring to him.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, ease
Tagged: Poetry, POC Poetry, toxic masculinity, gender roles, Empathy
“remember.
you were a writer
before
you ever
put
word to paper.
just because you were not writing
externally.
does not mean you were not writing
internally.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, stories
Tagged: Poetry, POC Poetry, Writers, advice for writers, Creativity
“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Again. Let those words resonate your mind.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, desire, does not, equate to being valued
Tagged: Desire, Value, Relationship
“i knew you
before
i met you.
i’ve known you my whole life.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
Tagged: Love, Known You All My Life, real love, love quotes, Love Poems
“she asked ‘you are in love, what does love look like’ to which i replied ‘like everything i’ve ever lost come back to me.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
Tagged: Love, Known You All My Life, real love, love quotes, Love Poems
“when creating. be kind to your doubt. hear it out. thank it for its concern. and reassure it that you are an artist. and risk is essential.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, when creating
Tagged: poetic prose, Writers, Self-Doubt, Creativity, advice for writers
“i knew
read sonia sancher.
nikki giovanni.
audre lorde.
before 
i ever even
heard the name
charles bukowski.
finally,
a proper education.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: POC writers, Women of Color Writers, A Proper Education, Dismantling Privilege, Marginalized Writers
“I don’t pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Poems
Tagged: poem, Poetry, Writers, Life
“i bleed
every month.
but
do not die.
how am i
not
magic.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: period, menstruation, Womanhood
“Kindness is a form of intelligence.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, [MP] kindness is a form of intelligence by nayyirah waheed
Tagged: kindness, positive, Virtue
“i have always been the woman of my dreams.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: admiration, Another version of you, Self Appreciation
“Water clings to my wrists. It has been my fragrance since birth.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
Tagged: First Lines, Literature, first lines of books
“i found flaws.
and
they were beautiful.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: Flaws, Imperfection, Acceptance, beauty
“Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, via Tumblr
Tagged: Love Poem, Crush
“when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship be what it is. it may be five mins. five hours. five days. five months. five years. a lifetime. let it manifest itself, the way it is meant to. it has an organic destiny. this way if it stays or if it leaves, you will be softer from having been loved this authentically. souls come into, return, open, and sweep through your life for a myriad of reasons, let them be who and what they are meant.”
— Nayyirah Waheed, A quote by Nayyirah Waheed
Tagged: soulmate, Destiny, Connection
“my english is broken.
on purpose.
you
have to try harder to understand
me.
breaking this language
you so love
is my pleasure.
in your arrogance
you presume that i want your
skinny language.
that my mouth is building
a room for
it
in the back of my throat.
it is not.

--i have seven different words for love. you have only one. that makes a lot of sense”
— Nayyirah Waheed, salt.
Tagged: Language, POC Poetry, Women of Color Writers, Linguistic Complexity, Your Skinny Language
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