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Warsan Shire Quotes

Total quotes: 31
“I won’t glorify or romanticize heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.”
— Warsan Shire, via twitter.com
Tagged: Heartbreak, Letting Go
“You can’t make homes out of human beings, someone should have already told you that.”
— Warsan Shire, Warsan Shire – For women who are 'difficult' to love.
Tagged: Home, Comfort, Person, Love
“Come with all your shame, come with your swollen heart, I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than you.”
— Warsan Shire, First Thought After Seeing You Smile
Tagged: Shame, beauty, Appreciation, Pain
“Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”
— Warsan Shire, Warsan Shire: The Force of Literary Power Behind 'Lemonade'
Tagged: Strangers, Fight, Relationships, Regrets
“to love and lose and still be kind.”
— Warsan Shire, via twitter.com
Tagged: caring
“I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.”
— Warsan Shire, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, character, cruel
“He knows all of my secrets and still wants to kiss me.”
— Warsan Shire, via Tumblr
Tagged: Secrets, Love, Unconditional
“We emotionally manipulated each other until we thought it was love.”
— Warsan Shire, 34 Excuses For Why We Failed At Love
Tagged: Failing Love, Sad, 34 Reasons Why
“you love her so bad she can’t breathe.”
— Warsan Shire, A quote by Warsan Shire
“I need someone who knows how to stay.”
— Warsan Shire, The Unbearable Weight of Staying
Tagged: Stay, someone, Love, Never Let Go
“Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren’t ignoring it, you’re healing. The fresh air can get to it. It’s honest. You aren’t hiding who you are. You aren’t rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly.”
— Warsan Shire, A quote by Warsan Shire
Tagged: Healing, Scars
“when i hear your voice, i think ‘that’s my song.’”
— Warsan Shire, A quote by Warsan Shire
Tagged: voice, Love, admiration
“I want to make love, but my hair smells of war and running and running.”
— Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Tagged: Women of Color Poets, Women of Color Writers, Love and War, War, make love
“I did not beg him to stay because I was begging God that he would not leave.”
— Warsan Shire, via Tumblr
Tagged: Love, breakup, Relationships, Love & Relationships
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark; you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well.”
— Warsan Shire, Home
Tagged: When You leave, Home
“But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy.”
— Warsan Shire, 32 Warsan Shire Quotes That Perfectly Describe Love, Heartbreak, and Everything In Between
Tagged: Self love, Self Worth, strength, Light, Toxic, Relationships
“you were like an ulcer on the inside of my cheek
that my tongue could not stop touching.
loving you was like watching a stranger clean
a week old wound;
i felt sick, but i wanted more.”
— Warsan Shire, day four.
Tagged: Love Poem
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”
— Warsan Shire, For women who are 'difficult' to love.
Tagged: Single, Womanhood, Love, Beautiful, strange, difficult
“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”
— Warsan Shire, For women who are 'difficult' to love.
Tagged: Single, Womanhood, Love, Beautiful, Love Yourself, Recreate
“You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
— Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark)
Tagged: Femme Fatale, My aesthetic
“so here it is. i loved him, yes. but loving him made me kind of hate myself. and that wasn’t good.”
— Warsan Shire, A quote by Warsan Shire
Tagged: Love, Hatred, Irony, Self-Love
“Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.”
— Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Mouthmark)
Tagged: For The Ones Who Are Hard To Love
“and you tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake”
— Warsan Shire, For women who are 'difficult' to love.
Tagged: Women of Color Poets, Difficult Women, Intense Women, Changing for a man, Never Change, Watering Down Your True Self
“With you, intimacy colours my voice.
even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’.”
— Warsan Shire, warsan shire on Twitter
Tagged: Love, Intimacy, affection
“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”
— Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth
Tagged: Love Yourself, Independence, Alone, Good, Solitude
“if they wanted you, wouldn't they have chosen you?”
— Warsan Shire, via twitter.com
Tagged: Love, Love & Relationships, importance in someone else
“his teeth ache with memory of taste
his body just a long shadow seeking yours
but you are always too intense
frightening in the way you want him
unashamed and sacrificial
he tells you that no man can live up to the one who
lives in your head”
— Warsan Shire, For women who are 'difficult' to love.
Tagged: Nostalgia, Beautiful Poetry, poetic prose, Difficult Women, Powerful Women, Intense Women, Women of Color Poets
“Just as you have loved before, you will love again.”
— Warsan Shire, A quote by Warsan Shire
Tagged: Love, Second Chance, Ability To Love
“how far have you walked for men who’ve never held your feet in their laps?
how often have you bartered with bone, only to sell yourself short?
why do you find the unavailable so alluring?
where did it begin? what went wrong? and who made you feel so worthless?”
— Warsan Shire, Questions for the Woman I was Last Night
Tagged: Unrequited Love, Poetry
“fit in here, in my palm, in my shadow, don’t be bigger than my idea of you, don’t be more beautiful than i can accept, don’t be more human than i am willing to allow you to be and be quiet, you’re too loud, even your un-belonging is loud. quiet your dreams, your voice, your hair, quiet your skin, quiet your displacement, quiet your longing, your colour, quiet your walk, your eyes. who said you could look at me like that? who said you could exist without permission? why are you even here? why aren’t you shrinking? i think of you often. you vibrate. you walk into a room and the temperature changes. i lean in and almost recognise you as human. but, no. we can’t have that”
— Warsan Shire, 8 Beautiful Quotes By Warsan Shire via Odyssey
Tagged: Love, romance, liking someone, Loving Someone, Lover, admiration, Attraction, Thinking about someone
“Then the men we try to love, say we carry too much loss, wear too much black, are too heavy to be around, much too sad to love. Then they leave and we mourn them too. Is that what we’re here for? To sit at kitchen tables, counting on our fingers the ones who died, those who left and the others who were taken by the police, or by drugs, or by illness or by other women. It makes no sense. Look at your skin, her mouth, these lips, those eyes, my God, listen to that laugh. The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, and even then, we have the moon.”
— Warsan Shire, What We Have
Tagged: Women of Color Poets, poetic prose, Mourning, Grieving, Injustice
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