"The sun is perfect and you woke this……" — Warsan Shire
"The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world."
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Warsan Shire
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34 Quotes by Warsan Shire
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There is no intimacy like that between two women who have chosen to be sisters.
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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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