Suad Osman

“when i am afraid to speak is when i speak. that is when it is most important. – the freedom in fear”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“But on paper, things can live forever.
On paper, a butterfly
never dies.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“i knew you. before i met you. i’ve known you my whole life. – nafsi”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are missed, her dreams seem to say.”
― Nadifa Mohamed, The Orchard of Lost Souls