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Yes. yes i do. have the right to be this lush and neverending.
— Nayyirah Waheed
a poem can eat a person whole. for years.
— Nayyirah Waheed
The truth isyou were born for you.
you were wanted by you.
you came for you.
you are here for you.
your existence is yours.
yes. — Nayyirah Waheed
Never trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,
you are invisible. — Nayyirah Waheed
There is a god in writing.a soft. roaring. unconditional.
home of a god.
who prays to me. — Nayyirah Waheed
I am a soft revolution. the one whose hair is bleeding.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind. — Nayyirah Waheed
she was a beautiful place to bare my legs.
— Nayyirah Waheed
i am mine.before i am ever anyone else's. — Nayyirah Waheed
my mother gave me islam.my father gave me the god of absence.
and here i am.
a religion made of myself. — Nayyirah Waheed
it was only and ever love.
— Nayyirah Waheed
poetry.is the fire leaving my body. — Nayyirah Waheed
I don't pay attention to theworld Ending.
It has ended for me
many Times
and began again in the morning. — Nayyirah Waheed
we are never our own.we must change this fact.
- acceptance — Nayyirah Waheed
My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.
— Nayyirah Waheed
apologize to your body.maybe,
that's where the healing
begins. — Nayyirah Waheed
i have lost millions and millionsof words to fear.
tell me that is not violence.
- the deaths — Nayyirah Waheed
knowing your poweris what creates
humility.
not know your power
is what creates
insecurity. — Nayyirah Waheed
there is no healthier drug than creativity.
— Nayyirah Waheed
I love myself.'the
quietest.
simplest.
most
powerful.
revolution.
ever. — Nayyirah Waheed
i am a brutally soft woman.
— Nayyirah Waheed
We are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Sometimes the night wakes in the middle of me. and i can do nothing but become the moon.
— Nayyirah Waheed
sometimes i smell my parents on my words. and i weep.
— Nayyirah Waheed
I want to keep our body above water. you want to make us a fish. - fish
— Nayyirah Waheed
trust your work.
— Nayyirah Waheed
But this was never a relationship. i have no idea who you are.
— Nayyirah Waheed
your skin smells like light. i think you are the moon.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Younot wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you — Nayyirah Waheed
Poetry alters my dna. every poem is a different life. every poem brings me closer to myself. and breaks open a new future inside of me.
— Nayyirah Waheed
I am a black wave in a white sea. always seen and unseen.
— Nayyirah Waheed
the cure for apathy is memory.
— Nayyirah Waheed
you see how your body is beginning to slow glow with stars. you are remembering. you are mine. you have never been anything else.
— Nayyirah Waheed
What we hide and do not say turns into another mouth that only we know.
— Nayyirah Waheed
i like myself. when i am myself.
— Nayyirah Waheed
It is being honest about
my pain
that
makes me invincible. — Nayyirah Waheed
all the women. in me. are tired.
— Nayyirah Waheed
I knew youbefore
i met you.
i've known you my whole life. — Nayyirah Waheed
eyes that commit. that is what I am looking for.
— Nayyirah Waheed
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.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Even if you are a small forest surviving off of moon alone, your light is extraordinary.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Sometimesthe beauty of my people
is
so
thick and intricate.
i spend days
trying
to undo my eyes
so
i can sleep. — Nayyirah Waheed
go.enjoy.
leave.
it was all about you, anyway. — Nayyirah Waheed
Does he not remember he is half woman.
— Nayyirah Waheed
will never know my skin. wild with everything and nothing but them. i sang into their blood. each and every one of them have my voices in their bones.
— Nayyirah Waheed
The thing you are mostafraid to write
Write that. — Nayyirah Waheed
They take no from our first breath. go back and return it to your mouth. your heart. your light.
— Nayyirah Waheed
i am a silk field of vulnerability.
— Nayyirah Waheed
i know, she is the love you are, the land you are made of, and she is hemorrhaging. war is eating her heart.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Listen to my poemsbut do not look for me
look for you. — Nayyirah Waheed
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
A lieis
simply a lie.
it draws its strength from belief.
stop believing
in
what hurts you.
- power — Nayyirah Waheed
If we must both
be right.
we will
lose
each other. — Nayyirah Waheed
I loved you because
it was easier
than
loving myself. — Nayyirah Waheed
i am such a sensitive summer thing.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Your soul stained my shoulders. my whole life smells like you. this will take time. undoing you from my blood.
— Nayyirah Waheed
You are a story. do not become a word. one word. because you want to be loved. love does not ask you to be nothing for something.
— Nayyirah Waheed
I will tell you, my daughter of your worth not your beauty every day.
— Nayyirah Waheed
You are a flood in my hands.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Desire is the kind of thing thateats you
and
leaves you starving. — Nayyirah Waheed
i cannot see you anymore. your smile. your legs. your heat. is lonely. the honey, grandmother said, is for your blood. it is to bring you back.
— Nayyirah Waheed
as a woman i know the difference between appreciation and teeth. what really hurts is that as a girl i had to know the same thing.
— Nayyirah Waheed
i have always been the woman of my dreams.
— Nayyirah Waheed
No' might make them angry
but
it will make
you
free. — Nayyirah Waheed
There have been so many timesi have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious. — Nayyirah Waheed
I will be lost and unlost, over and over again, relax love. You
were meant to be this glorious.
Epic. Story. — Nayyirah Waheed
She was flower salt in my heart, and she hurt beautifully.
— Nayyirah Waheed
leaving. doesn't mean that you've left.
— Nayyirah Waheed
when,' is not something you ask someone when the bodies of their aunt. uncle. friends. first love. cannot be found.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Whether with a lover or none. i reek of love. i stink of love.
— Nayyirah Waheed
there is you and you.this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship. — Nayyirah Waheed
I will always be a translation.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Would you still want to travel to
that
country
if
you could not take a camera with you.
-a question of appropriation — Nayyirah Waheed
water clings to my wrists. it has been my fragrance since birth.
— Nayyirah Waheed
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
— Nayyirah Waheed
i will. and this will end. - closure | dankyes
— Nayyirah Waheed
Grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Can we speak in flowers.it will be easier for me to understand. — Nayyirah Waheed
you and the poems have a lot to talk about.
— Nayyirah Waheed