Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.

The ego hurts you like this: you become obsessed with the one person who does not love you. blind to the rest who do.

You can't make homes out of human beings.

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.

My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am absolutely in love with the sound of it and its meaning. Also, it's not the kind of name you baby, slip into sweet talk mid sentence, late night phone conversation, whisper into the receiver kind of name, so, of that I am glad.

I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother. Growing up, I absolutely wanted a name that was easier to pronounce, more common, prettier. But then I grew up and understood the power of a name, the beauty that comes in understanding how your name has affected who you are.