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Warsan Shire has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in…
• It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find…
• At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been…
• I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m…
• 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…
• Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace…
• I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is…
• Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a…
• I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.
• There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
• Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want…
• Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.

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