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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
It takes a lot of hard work, devotion, good food, balanced diet, enough money, etcetera. Do you have any of them?
— Waheed Ibne Musa
There is a god in writing.a soft. roaring. unconditional.
home of a god.
who prays to me. — Nayyirah Waheed
You can call a thing possible which is still to happen, but not which has already taken place.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
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
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
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
Whether with a lover or none. i reek of love. i stink of love.
— 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
No' might make them angry
but
it will make
you
free. — Nayyirah Waheed
Only the great warriors fall down from their horses; one would not fall who rides a donkey cart.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
I will always be a translation.
— 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
She was flower salt in my heart, and she hurt beautifully.
— Nayyirah Waheed
leaving. doesn't mean that you've left.
— Nayyirah Waheed
How could I forget the man who can break uncountable bones just in a few seconds.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
I am a black wave in a white sea. always seen and unseen.
— Nayyirah Waheed
when,' is not something you ask someone when the bodies of their aunt. uncle. friends. first love. cannot be found.
— Nayyirah Waheed
Shed as much blood as you can. You will get as much as you waste!
— Waheed Ibne Musa
Younot wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you — Nayyirah Waheed
When I'm fighting, my rival becomes like a skeleton to me, without any flesh on him.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
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
Tell him, Cosa Nostra says, HELLAO!
— Waheed Ibne Musa
If an angry bull is running toward you, and your pants become wet despite holding the red cloth, make sure the other side of the cloth is white.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
the cure for apathy is memory.
— 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
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
sometimes i smell my parents on my words. and i weep.
— 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
If you have pain in your ass, it doesn't mean you have done something wrong, but it's probably because you're wearing your little brother's underwear.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
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
i have lost millions and millionsof words to fear.
tell me that is not violence.
- the deaths — Nayyirah Waheed
In the tribe of Tuareg, men instead of women cover their faces with a blue veil. The tourists who come there call them the 'Blue Men of the Sahara'.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
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
First, you wounded a lion, and then you invite him to feast.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
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 am a silk field of vulnerability.
— Nayyirah Waheed
You are a flood in my hands.
— Nayyirah Waheed
When you talk about escape, know that it doesn't take place from the front. Hidden paths are always on the back.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
The mind can be hunted, but hunting needs the mind.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
There's gonna be a lot of heat inside.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
i am such a sensitive summer thing.
— Nayyirah Waheed
You've got to understand that, right now, you're a man with no choice.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
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
He's the only one fluttering his wings.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
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
A heart filled with emotions doesn't require rituals and venues for expressing true love.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
Can we speak in flowers.it will be easier for me to understand. — 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
These precious things should be proud of their luck, if a woman like you owns them.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
I will be lost and unlost, over and over again, relax love. You
were meant to be this glorious.
Epic. Story. — 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
Look at yourself, you're old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
Sure! Tomorrow night, they'll have a show down to witness.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
i will. and this will end. - closure | dankyes
— Nayyirah Waheed
Grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.
— Nayyirah Waheed
there is you and you.this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship. — Nayyirah Waheed
you and the poems have a lot to talk about.
— Nayyirah Waheed
I will tell you, my daughter of your worth not your beauty every day.
— 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
Success by one's efforts is the achievement gained through ability, not through deception.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
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 it was fast for you, you haven't seen me before.
— Waheed Ibne Musa
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