Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.

Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of the 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.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy

I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.

I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I'm afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It's an unflinching language; the crudest most terrible things sound perfectly normal in Somali.

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.