Quotes by : Warsan Shire

You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile,....

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to....

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

[…] but she cannot make him eat, like you.

Your daughter is ugly.She knows loss intimately,carries whole cities in her belly.As a child, relatives....

You are her mother.Why did you not warn her,hold her like a rotting boatand tell her that men will not....

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about....

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.

Loving you was like going to war I never came back the same.

Don't assume, ask. Be kind. Tell the truth. Don't say anything you can't stand behind fully. Have integrity.....