Quotes by "Nayyirah Waheed"

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.

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.

Desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.

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.

you not wanting me was the beginning of me wanting myself thank you

Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.

No’ might make them angry but it will make you free.

there have been so many times i have seen a man wanting to weep but instead beat his heart until it was unconscious.

never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them, you are invisible.

if we must both be right. we will lose each other.

creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to the planet; have been asked to be something different, more, less my whole life. thank spirit, my wisdom is deeper than my shame, and i listened to who i was. i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to nothing, know that who we are, and what we do is life. when we create, we are creating the world. remember this, and commit.

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

eyes that commit. that is what I am looking for.

i want work that is a relentless oasis.