“and you tried to change didn’t you? closed your mouth more tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake”— Warsan Shire, youtube.comTagged: Women of Color Poets, Difficult Women, Intense Women, Changing for a man, Never Change
“you can't make homes out of human beings someone should have already told you that and if he wants to leave then let him leave you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love.”— Warshan Shire, youtube.comTagged: Nostalgia, Beautiful Poetry, poetic prose, Difficult Women, Powerful Women
“his teeth ache with memory of taste his body just a long shadow seeking yours but you are always too intense frightening in the way you want him unashamed and sacrificial he tells you that no man can live up to the one who lives in your head”— Warsan Shire, youtube.comTagged: Nostalgia, Beautiful Poetry, poetic prose, Difficult Women, Powerful Women
“You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”— Warsan Shire, youtube.comTagged: Self love, You Are Beautiful
“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”— Warsan Shire, genius.comTagged: Single, Womanhood, Love, Beautiful, Love Yourself
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”— Warsan Shire, genius.comTagged: Single, Womanhood, Love, Beautiful, strange
“You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.”— Warsan Shire, genius.comTagged: Single, Womanhood, Love, Beautiful, strange