Top 100 Waheed Quotes
#1. Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind
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#2. Your soul stained my shoulders. my whole life smells like you. this will take time. undoing you from my blood.
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#3. I want to keep our body above water. you want to make us a fish. - fish
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#4. They take no from our first breath. go back and return it to your mouth. your heart. your light.
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#6. My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.
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#7. Be easy. take your time. you are coming home. to yourself. - the becoming
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#8. Even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish.
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#9. And i heard her say, 'you
are afraid of love. but
love is not afraid of you.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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
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#14. Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.
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#15. you see how your body is beginning to slow glow with stars. you are remembering. you are mine. you have never been anything else.
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#16. i know, she is the love you are, the land you are made of, and she is hemorrhaging. war is eating her heart.
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#17. there is you and you.
this is a relationship.
this is the most important relationship.
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#19. I am a black wave in a white sea. always seen and unseen.
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#21. as a woman i know the difference between appreciation and teeth. what really hurts is that as a girl i had to know the same thing.
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#22. I lost a whole continent.
a whole continent from my memory.
unlike all other hyphenated americans
my hyphen is made of blood.
when africa says hello
my mouth is a heartbreak
because i have nothing in my tongue
to answer her.
i don't know how to say hello to my mother.
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#23. water clings to my wrists. it has been my fragrance since birth.
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#26. If an angry bull is running toward you, and your pants become wet despite holding the red cloth, make sure the other side of the cloth is white.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#27. cry wild.
you have probably never
cried wild.
but, you know what doors
feel like.
you have
an intimacy with doors
that is killing you
-break
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#30. In the tribe of Tuareg, men instead of women cover their faces with a blue veil. The tourists who come there call them the 'Blue Men of the Sahara'.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#31. 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.
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#32. Remember,
you were a writer
before
you ever
put
pen to paper.
just because you were not writing
externally.
does not mean you were not writing
internally.
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#33. If
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with
air.
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#35. Can we speak in flowers.
it will be easier for me to understand.
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#36. If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
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#37. You've got to understand that, right now, you're a man with no choice.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#38. How could I forget the man who can break uncountable bones just in a few seconds.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#40. I will be lost and unlost, over
and over again, relax love. You
were meant to be this glorious.
Epic. Story.
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#41. There have been so many times
i have seen a man wanting to weep
but
instead
beat his heart until it was unconscious.
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#42. you are not a mistake. you are too many exquisite details to be a mistake.
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#43. If you have pain in your ass, it doesn't mean you have done something wrong, but it's probably because you're wearing your little brother's underwear.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#46. You said that you cut him into two pieces. I'll show you how to do it in three.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#47. Grieve. so that you can be free to feel something else.
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#48. In your arrogance you presume that i want your skinny language. that my mouth is building a room for it in the back of my throat. it is not.
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#49. Yes. yes i do. have the right to be this lush and neverending.
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#50. Only the great warriors fall down from their horses; one would not fall who rides a donkey cart.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#51. 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.
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#52. Now is the time to reap rewards. Now is the time to claim supremacy over others. It is the time to gain and to lose, to display one's ability, to exhibit acts of one's valour. Are you ready?
Waheed Ibne Musa
#53. She was flower salt in my heart, and she hurt beautifully.
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#54. Sometimes the night wakes in the middle of me. and i can do nothing but become the moon.
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#55. Would
you still want to travel to
that
country
if
you could not take a camera with you.
-a question of appropriation
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#56. I am so full of my tongue you would think speaking is easy. but it is not.
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#57. I don't pay attention to the
world Ending.
It has ended for me
many Times
and began again in the morning.
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#58. These precious things should be proud of their luck, if a woman like you owns them.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#59. Whether with a lover or none. i reek of love. i stink of love.
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#60. 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.
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#61. When I am afraid to speak is when I speak.
That is when it is most important.
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#62. But this was never a relationship. i have no idea who you are.
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#63. A lie
is
simply a lie.
it draws its strength from belief.
stop believing
in
what hurts you.
- power
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#65. You can call a thing possible which is still to happen, but not which has already taken place.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#66. There is a god in writing.
a soft. roaring. unconditional.
home of a god.
who prays to me.
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#67. I am a soft revolution. the one whose hair is bleeding.
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#68. 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.
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#69. First, you wounded a lion, and then you invite him to feast.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#70. knowing your power
is what creates
humility.
not know your power
is what creates
insecurity.
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#71. You travel to lush looted countries. parts of earth laying on their sides. barely breathing. hot with rust, infection, and tourist anemia. you and your camera arrive. start tearing at bodies with your lust. it's harmless. appreciating culture. sharing. honoring clothing. the way certain skin exists.
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#77. when,' is not something you ask someone when the bodies of their aunt. uncle. friends. first love. cannot be found.
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#78. Drop a name in the water. drop a name in the water. and a name in the water. drop another name in the water. and another. and another. and another. and another. and another. and another. and another. and another. and another. and another. until there are no more bodies in your body. -
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#79. Do not choose the lesser life. do you hear me. do you hear me. choose the life that is. yours. the life that is seducing your lungs. that is dripping down your chin.
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#80. Never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,
you are invisible.
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#81. I believe that everyone in the world.
has
one poem.
that is their soulmate.
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#83. Are ya waiting for an invitation? Getchya self in. I ain't gonna scare ya.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#84. You
not wanting me
was
the beginning of me
wanting myself
thank you
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#86. we are never our own.
we must change this fact.
- acceptance
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#87. i have lost millions and millions
of words to fear.
tell me that is not violence.
- the deaths
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#88. I want to live so densely. lush. and slow in the next few years, that a year becomes ten years, and my past becomes only a page in the book of my life.
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#89. I will tell you, my daughter of your worth not your beauty every day.
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#90. Sure! Tomorrow night, they'll have a show down to witness.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#91. As a writer, if someone falls in love with my work, I know they have fallen in love with my mind. Having no idea what my face looks like, they chose my mind. Art may be the only place a woman can be whole without being seen.
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#92. What we hide and do not say turns into another mouth that only we know.
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#93. Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.
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#97. Amidst the crowd, tumbling like a stone, although lying on the roads, I'm but a life.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#98. will never know my skin. wild with everything and nothing but them. i sang into their blood. each and every one of them have my voices in their bones.
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#100. 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.
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