“Your daughter’s face is a small riot, her hands are a civil war, a refugee camp behind each ear.”— Warsan Shire, amazon.com
“I hear them say go home, I hear them say fucking immigrants, fucking refugees. Are they really this arrogant? Do they not know that stability is like a lover with a sweet mouth upon your body one second; the next you are a tremor lying on the floor covered in rubble and old currency waiting for its…”— Warsan Sire, amazon.com
“and you tried to change didn’t you? closed your mouth more tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake”— Warsan Shire, youtube.com
“Then the men we try to love, say we carry too much loss, wear too much black, are too heavy to be around, much too sad to love. Then they leave and we mourn them too. Is that what we’re here for? To sit at kitchen tables, counting on our fingers the ones who died, those who left and the others who w…”— Warsan Shire, poetryinternationalweb.net
“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.com
“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.com
“When Warsan Shire writes, she does precisely that; she opens a wound and as an emotional cartographer, maps the terrain of her trauma and sutures the wound through her poetry. Fearless and vulnerable, she pulls back layers to expose not only the pain, but the healing as well.”— Kameelah Janan Rasheed, wellandoftenpress.com
“I think representation is exceedingly important. I think women of colour in the writing world are an absolute need.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“I think little girls of colour need as much representation as they can get, and the more women of colour that exist not just in literature but in the arts world in general, the more chance they have of being represented authentically. I use my voice to give words to the silent. I shout because I HAD…”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“The biggest gift for any writer in the world, is to be read, and for the words they have written to help and move people. To be able to be part of a thing so much greater than myself is humbling and I am nothing but grateful that so many wonderful people have read and found healing in my words.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com