All Quotes by Warsan Shire
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“You are her mother.”
“Your daughter is ugly.”
“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.”
“Your daughter is ugly.”
“We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.”
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.”
“Sometimes it feels like someone else is wearing my body.”
“I wrote the poem for them, for my family and for anyone who has experienced or lived around grief and trauma in that way.”
“I still feel very homeless. I live in London and have been here nearly my whole life, but it is a difficult city to connect to. I have travelled around and found my body making more sense elsewhere. But I have started to understand what it feels like to belong, so I look forward to exploring different countries and seeing how fully I can feel at home in a place, that at the end of the day, isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
“My poems come to me in images, like film. I can see it very clearly and then this overwhelming urge to write out best what I just saw comes over me…”