Warsan Shire Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

  Warsan Shire

  Beautiful, Morning, Hands

• I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

  Warsan Shire

  Airports, Language, Forget

  Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”

• I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language; the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.

  Warsan Shire

  Thinking, Perfectly Normal, Sound

  Source: kalamu.com

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