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. five lifetimes. 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.”
― Nayyirah Waheed

“african american women are easy. inferior.
africans are dirty. jungle people.
african americans are lazy. indolent.
african people are too black. ugly.
african americans think they are better than us.
africans think they are better us.


–– listen to the sound of us | we are breaking our mothers heart | the ancestors
weep at how much we look like the hate that came to eat us”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“when you are
here
everything
is
wild.
- moon”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“When I discovered the poetry of Nayyirah Waheed, I discovered the sensitivity present within my being.”
― Avijeet Das

“when words take off their clothes. for me.
so i can write. them
exactly. as they are.
— skin”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Nejma