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Warsan Shire has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in…
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It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find…
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At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been…
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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…
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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…
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Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace…
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I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is…
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Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a…
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I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the tongue. My name makes you want…
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Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving.
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And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.
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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…
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You know, the mountains are full of dangers, and they swallow you up. But mostly, they give.
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Why bear malice? Just let it go. So what of pride? It will swallow you whole.
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Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it…
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon
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Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal…
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Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, "If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enough to…
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