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Warsan Sire

Warsan Sire Quotes

Total quotes: 2

Warsan Sire

Total quotes: 2

“And you tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.”

— Warsan Sire, Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth

Tagged: Love, Breakups, Heartbreak, strength, Relationships

“I hear them say go home, I hear them say fucking immigrants, fucking refugees. Are they really this arrogant? Do they not know that stability is like a lover with a sweet mouth upon your body one second; the next you are a tremor lying on the floor covered in rubble and old currency waiting for its return. All I can say is, I was once like you, the apathy, the pity, the ungrateful placement and now my home is the mouth of a shark, now my home is the barrel of a gun. I’ll see you on the other side.”

— Warsan Sire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

Tagged: Women of Color Poets, Women of Color Writers, War, Immigration, Refugees, bigotry, Ignorance, War-torn Homelands

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