Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things. Khalil Gibran (via wordsnquotes)

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give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right. Warsan Shire (via forsooth-verily)

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. I’ve been carrying the old anthem in my mouth for so long that there’s no space for another song, another tongue or another language. I know a shame that shrouds, totally engulfs. I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel. I’m bloated with language I can’t afford to forget. Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Center),” from Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth (via bostonpoetryslam)