Nayyirah Waheed Quotes

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.

the rain in this room is low and thickand undressing my heart through the air. – intimacy 

when you allow that man. to walk through your children. plant his feet. in their veins. hold their voices. necks. bodies. inside his violence. you are no longer a mother. when you give him the key to that door. because you need to be loved by someone. you have seasoned them for the wolf. burned their childhood into a fantasy. it’s going to take a third of their lives. all the courage. from their cells to their hair. to learn the alchemetic formula that turns that kind of betrayal. a demothering. soft. liveable. – before you get that key made

my mother gave me islam.my father gave me the god of absence.and here i am.a religion made of myself.

we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.

healingbeginsthe momentyouwant it to

the thing you are mostafraid to writewrite that-- advice to young writers

it is being honest about my painthat makes me invincible.