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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

When I am afraid to speak is when I speak.
That is when it is most important. — Nayyirah Waheed

Whether with a lover or none. i reek of love. i stink of love. — Nayyirah Waheed

the hard season will split you through. do not worry. you will bleed water. — Nayyirah Waheed

There have been so many times
i 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

And i heard her say, 'you
are afraid of love. but
love is not afraid of you. — 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

If
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air. — Nayyirah Waheed

Shed as much blood as you can. You will get as much as you waste! — Waheed Ibne Musa

You
not 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 you
before
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

Sometimes
the 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

can you be a daughter.
if you have no
mother language."
- african american iii — 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

i have lost millions and millions
of 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

I believe that everyone in the world.
has
one poem.
that is their soulmate. — Nayyirah Waheed

First, you wounded a lion, and then you invite him to feast. — Waheed Ibne Musa

length of our love. she was your eyes the day i met you. remember, you and i. — 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 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

Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire. — Nayyirah Waheed

You said that you cut him into two pieces. I'll show you how to do it in three. — Waheed Ibne Musa

There's gonna be a lot of heat inside. — Waheed Ibne Musa

i am such a sensitive summer thing. — Nayyirah Waheed

Sometimes i want to say it. and there is nothing in english. that will say it. — 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 that
eats 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

the poem.
the one that is running through
your life.
pay attention.
to that poem. — 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

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

you are not a mistake. you are too many exquisite details to be a mistake. — 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

Be easy. take your time. you are coming home. to yourself. - the becoming — 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 poems
but 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 lie
is
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