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“Someone can be madly in love with you and still not be ready. They can love you in a way you have never been loved and still not join you on the bridge. And whatever their reasons you must leave. Because you never ever have to inspire anyone to meet you on the bridge. You never ever have to convince someone to do the work to be ready. There is more extraordinary love, more love that you have never seen, out here in this wide and wild universe. And there is the love that will be ready.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“you
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“where you are. is not who you are. – circumstances”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“it is being honest
about
my pain
that
makes me invincible.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“be easy. take your time. you are coming home. to yourself. — the becoming”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“and i said to my body. softly. ‘i want to be your friend.’ it took a long breath. and replied ‘i have been waiting my whole life for this.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“you ask your heart why it is always hurting. it says ‘this is the only thing you will allow me to say to you. the only feeling you are willing to feel.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“i have never understood.
will
probably never understand.
the white mans lust
to eat the world.
to eat the universe. (mars is next)
why he was born with such a rabid
starvation.
why he feigns for power
like
crack rock. doing everything. and anything.
to have it.
no matter how deranged.
why he is in so much pain
he needs to rip the roots of happiness
from the earth
and
burn them into
his smile.
what happened in his relationship with our mother.
that he needs to set a person on fire.
watch them burn.
to
feel powerful.
not every white man
is
born this way,
but,
it stands to remain
there are many
who
are.”
― nayyirah waheed

“sit in the ocean. it is one of the best medicines on the planet. – the water”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“why can we never talk about the blood. the blood of our ancestors. the blood of our history. the blood between our legs. – blood”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“you are a story. do not become a word. one word. because you want to be loved. love does not ask you to be nothing for something.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“i found flaws and they were beautiful. – ugly”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“the worst
thing that ever happened
to
the world
was
the white man coming across gun powder.
–– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“as you are.’ says the universe. ‘after…’ you answer. ‘as you are.’ says the universe. ‘before…’ you answer. ‘as you are.’ says the universe. ‘when…’ you answer. ‘as you are.’ says the universe. ‘how…’ you answer. ‘as you are.’ says the universe. ‘why…’ you answer. ‘because you are happening now. right now. right at this moment and your happening is beautiful. the thing that both keeps me alive and brings me to my knees. you don’t even know how breathtaking you are. as you are.’ says the universe through tears. — as you are | you are the prayer”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“the cure for apathy is memory.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“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, Nejma

“i want more ‘men’ with flowers falling from their skin. more water in their eyes. more tremble in their bodies. more women in their hearts than on their hands. more softness in their height. more honesty in their voice. more wonder. more humility in their feet. – less”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“decolonization requires acknowledging. that your needs and desires should never come at the expense of another’s life energy. it is being honest that you have been spoiled by a machine that is not feeding you freedom but feeding you the milk of pain. – the release”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“yes. yes i do. have the right to be this lush and neverending.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma

“what i never learned from my mother was that just because someone desires you does not mean they value you. desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“if we wanted to. people of color could burn the world down. for what we have experienced. are experiencing. but we don’t. – how stunningly beautiful that our sacred respect for the earth. for life. is deeper than our rage”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“you. are your own standard of beauty. – mirror work”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“knowing your power
is what creates
humility.
not know your power
is what creates
insecurity.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“be softer with you.
you are a breathing thing.
a memory to someone.
a home to a life.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“knowing your worth can save your life. raising you on beauty alone you will be starved. you will be raw. you will be weak. an easy stomach. always in need of someone telling you how beautiful you are. –”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“you can not remain a war between what you want to say (who you really are). and what you should say (who you pretend to be). your mouth was not designed to eat itself. – split”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“your soul stained my shoulders. my whole life smells like you. this will take time. undoing you from my blood.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“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, Salt

“healing
begins
the moment
you
want it to”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt