“i do not expect my child’s respect. just because i have given birth to their life. does not mean they owe me.… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“i will tell you, my daughter of your worth not your beauty every day. (your beauty is a given. every being is… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“have you ever heard a black woman weep over her skinmurdered child. it is the splitting of atoms. it is billions of… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“the first time the caregiver saw it on the child. they said ‘no. don’t you dare. you will not grow up thinking… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“as a child there was either books or pain. i chose books. -how i became a writer” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“i am trying to remember you and let you go at the same time. — the mourn” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“there are feelings. you haven’t felt yet. give them time. they are almost here. – fresh” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“to be waterdrugged into rejecting the nuances of my own bursting extraordinary self. and to have this be called education.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship. be what it is. it may be five mins.… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“fell apart many times. so. what does that say about me besides i live through wars.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“stay is a sensitive word. we wear who stayed and who left in our skin forever” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“black women breathe flowers, too. just because we are taught to grow them in the lining of our quiet (our grandmothers secret) does nor… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
“bleed every month. but do not die. how am i not magic. – the lie” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
