Nayyirah Waheed Nejma Quotes

Collection of famous quotes and sayings about Nayyirah Waheed Nejma.

Quotes About Nayyirah Waheed Nejma

Enjoy collection of 37 Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes. Download and share images of famous quotes about Nayyirah Waheed Nejma. Righ click to see and save pictures of Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes that you can use as your wallpaper for free.

our tragedy begins humid.
in a humid classroom.
with a humid text book. breaking into us.
stealing us from ourselves.
one poem. at a time.

it begins with shakespeare.

the hot wash.
the cool acid. of
dead white men and women. people.

each one a storm.

crashing. into our young houses.
making us islands. easy isolations.
until we are so beleaguered and
swollen
with a definition of poetry that is white skin and
not us.
that we tuck our scalding. our soreness.
behind ourselves and
learn
poetry.
as trauma. as violence. as erasure.
another place we do not exist.
another form of exile
where we should praise. honor. our own starvation.

the little bits of langston. phyllis wheatley.
and
angelou during black history month. are the crumbs. are the minor boats.
that give us slight rest.

to be waterdrugged into rejecting the nuances of
my own bursting
extraordinary
self.
and to have
this
be
called
education.

to take my name out of my name.
out of where my native poetry lives. in me.
and
replace it with keats. browning. dickson. wolf. joyce. wilde. wolfe. plath. bronte. hemingway. hughes. byron. frost. cummings. kipling. poe. austen. whitman. blake. longfellow. wordsworth. duffy. twain. emerson. yeats. tennyson. a ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
there is peaceful.
there is wild.
i am both at the same time. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
as a child
there was either
books
or
pain.
i chose books.

-how i became a writer ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
There have been so many times
i have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
the cure for apathy is memory. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
Does he not remember he is half woman. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
Sometimes the night wakes in the middle of me. and i can do nothing but become the moon. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
Poetry is evidence that the heart thinks and the mind feels. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
can you be a daughter.
if you have no
mother language."
- african american iii ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
No'
might make them angry
but
it will make
you
free. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
the rain in this room is low and thick
and undressing my heart through the air. – intimacy ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
The truth is
you were born for you.
you were wanted by you.
you came for you.
you are here for you.
your existence is yours.
yes. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind
Nayyirah Waheed ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
Yes. yes i do. have the right to be this lush and neverending. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
poetry.
is the fire leaving my body. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
my mother gave me islam.

my father gave me the god of absence.

and here i am.

a religion made of myself. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
Listen to my poems
but do not look for me
look for you. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
You
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
Some words build houses in your throat. and they live there, content and on fire. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
i want work that is a relentless oasis. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
Put some honey and sea
water by your bed.
acknowledge. that your being needs sweetness
and cleansing.
that it is sore.
that you are. soft.
- orishas ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
The thing you are most
afraid to write
Write that. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
the poem.
the one that is running through
your life.
pay attention.
to that poem. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
eyes that commit. that is what I am looking for. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
When you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship be what it is. it may be five mins. five hours. five days. five months. five years. a lifetime. let it manifest itself, the way it is meant to. it has an organic destiny. this way if it stays or if it leaves, you will be softer from having been loved this authentically. souls come into, return, open, and sweep through your life for a myriad of reasons, let them be who and what they are meant. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
you do not have to be a fire
for
every mountain blocking you.
you could be a water
and
soft river your way to freedom
too.

- options ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
i will. and this will end. - closure | dankyes ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
I will always be a translation. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
I knew you
before
i met you.
i've known you my whole life. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
I am your friend. a soul for your soul. a place for your life. home. know this. sun or water. here or away. we are a lighthouse. we leave. and we stay. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
soon
the moon will come from my lips
and
you will not remember your name. – oshún ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
i learned shukran. (thank you) first. shukran. (thank you) for this meal. shukran. (thank you) for making this for me. shukran. for everything. and in the midst of all of this. gratitude. la. (no) was lost. before. i ever found it. - the blunt force of gratitude ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
stay is a sensitive word.
we wear
who stayed
and
who left
in our skin forever ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
she asked 'you are in love what does love look like' to which i replied 'like everything i've ever lost come back to me. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
I do not expect my child's respect.
just because i have given birth to their life.
does not mean they owe me.
anything.
what i want most
is to look into my child's eyes
and
see
that i have given birth
to
a
heart.
have
honored.
held and feed.
someones
heart.
from the moment we first met.
and
they love me for it. ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
he was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with 'being a man.' 'being a man' had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. – weightless ~ Nayyirah Waheed
Nayyirah Waheed Nejma quotes by Nayyirah Waheed
The Jerk Quotes «
» Nazarite Quotes